Alas, seeing Drona stationed in battle, like an yawning tiger or an elephant with rent temples prepared to sacrifice his life in light, clad in coat of mail, proficient in all modes of warfare, that illustrious bowman, that foremost of men, that producer of apprehensions in his enemies, grateful, devoted to truth, always desirous of doing good to Duryodhana, alas seeing him stationed at the head of his forces, did any one meet him with a praiseworthy determination for fight, determination that invests Kshatriyas with renown, that cowards cannot form and that distinguishes the foremost of men? Relate to me, O Sanjaya. Who were those heroic warriors, that encountered the son of Bharadvaja, seeing him stationed at the head of his army?
आर्यो युद्धे मतिं कृत्वा क्षत्रियाणां यशस्करीम्। असेवितां कापुरुषैः सेवितां पुरुषर्षभैः॥ स हि वीरोन्नतः शूरो यो भग्नेषु निवर्तते। अहो नासीत् पुमान् कश्चिद् दृष्ट्वा द्रोणं व्यवस्थितम्॥ जृम्भमाणमिव व्याघ्र प्रभिन्नमिव कुञ्जरम्। त्यजन्तमाहवे प्राणान् संनद्धं चित्रयोधिनम्॥ महेश्वासं नरव्याघ्रं द्विषतां भयवर्धनम्। कृतज्ञं सत्यनिरतं दुर्योधनहितैषिणम्॥ भारद्वाजं तथानीके दृष्ट्वा शूरूवस्थितम्। के शूराः संन्यवर्तन्त तन्ममाचक्ष्व संजय॥