Seeing the Kauravas, Drupada rushed forward and afflicted the Kuru army with a shower of arrows. Such was his lightness of motion on the field of battle that though he was fighting alone on a single chariot, the Kurus thought in fear that there was more then one Drupada.
दुपदः कौरवान् दृष्ट्वा प्राधावत समन्ततः। शरजालेन महता मोहयन् कौरवी चमूम्॥ तमुद्यतं रथेनैकमाशुकारिणमाहवे। अनेकमिव संत्रासान्मेनिरे तत्र कौरवाः॥