Fighting only for the days and spreading carnage among the Pandava troops, o king, that Brahmana Drona, conversant with the contents of all the Vedas, attained to the posthumous region of the Brahmanas.
युद्धं कृत्वा दिनान् पञ्च द्रोणो हत्वा वरूथिनीम्। ब्रह्मलोकं गतो राजन् ब्राह्मणो वेदपारगः॥