Soon recovering his senses he became comforted, as he recollected that son was incapable of being assailed by the enemy. Rushing upon the son of Parshata and impelled by a desire to slay that brave warrior who was destined to be his slayer, he covered the former with thousands of sharp arrows furnished with wings of the Kanka feather.
स लब्ध्वा चेतनां द्रोणः क्षणेनैव समाश्वसत्। अनुचिन्त्यात्मनः पुत्रमविषयमरातिभिः॥ स पार्षतमभिद्रुत्य जिघांसुर्मृत्युमात्मनः। अवाकिरत् सहस्रेण तीक्ष्णानां कङ्कपत्रिणाम्॥