When such leaders of our race as Bhisma, Drona, and Kripa, all learned in morality and Artha, are present how could such a calamity (at all) happen?
सेयं नीत्यर्थविज्ञेषु भीष्मद्रोणकृपादिषु। स्थितेषु कुलनाथेषु कथमापदुपागता॥