Then beholding Drona stay on the field for the extermination of the Kshatriya race, the following Rishis headed by the God of Fire approached him.
क्षत्रियाणामभावाय दृष्ट्वा द्रोणमवस्थितम्। ऋषयोऽभ्यागतास्तूर्णं हव्यवाहपुरोगमाः॥