Since it does not break into hundred pieces, although I have heard of the slaughter of Drona. How could he had bean struck by death, on whom the Brahmanas and the princes danced attendance being desirous of receiving lessons in the Vedas and in divination and in the use of bows. I cannot even conceive the fall of Drona which is like the drying up of the ocean, the removal of the Meru mountain and the dropping of the lustrous orb from the heavens. He was the repressor of the wicked and the protector of the pious.
यच्छुत्वा निहतं द्रोणं शतधा न विदीर्यते। ब्राह्ये दैवे तथेष्वस्त्रे यमुपासन् गुणार्थिनः॥ ब्राह्मणा राजपुत्राश्च स कथं मृत्युना हृतः। शोषणं सागरस्येव मेरोरिव विसर्पणम्॥ पतनं भास्करस्येव न मृष्ये द्रोणपातनम्। दुष्टानां प्रतिषेद्धाऽऽसीद् धार्मिकाणां च रक्षिता॥