Vaishampayana said Thereupon the highly energetic and greatly wise Drona said : "Persons like them can never meet with destruction of discomfiture."
वैशम्पायन उवाच अथाब्रवीन्महावीर्यो द्रोणस्तत्त्वार्थदर्शिवान्। न तादृशा विनश्यन्ति न प्रयान्ति पराभवम्॥