Then, O monarch, the son of Drona, having checked the course of his (antagonist's) shafts by his own arrows in the field of battle, smilingly struck the son of Pandu in the forehead with a dart.
शरैः शरांस्ततो द्रौणि: संवार्य युधि पाण्डवम्। ललाटेऽभ्यानद् राजन् नाराचेन स्मयन्निव॥