These men of mature years, learned in the precepts of morality, (namely) Drona and others, sit with down cast heads like men who are dead and whose lives have departed from their bodies.
एते द्रोणादयश्चैव वृद्धा धर्मविदो जनाः। शून्यैः शरीरैस्तिष्ठन्ति गतासव इवानताः॥