How could he kill that best of car-warriors, viz., Dhrishtadyumna, before whom the great bowman Drona himself could not appear?
यस्य द्रोणो महेष्वासो न प्रादादाहवे मुखम्। निजघ्ने रथिनां श्रेष्ठं धृष्टद्युम्नं कथं नु सः॥