Sanjaya said O monarch, then your son, with the perinission of Drona, made him the commander of his troops, with ceremonies enjoined by the ordinances for such occasions.
संजय उवाच स एवमभ्यनुज्ञातश्चक्रे सनापतिं ततः। द्रोणं तव सुतो राजन् विधिदृष्टेन कर्मणा॥