Then that mighty champion (Drona) of great effulgence, charged, with headlong speed, the army of the sons of Pandu, shooting hundreds of sharpened shafts.
स पाण्डवानां महतीं महेष्वासो महाद्युतिः॥ वेगेनाभ्यद्रवत् सेनां किरञ्छरशतैः शितैः।