Thus addressed (by Ashvatthama), all of them, O great monarch, began to discharge showers of weapons upon the son of Drona as clouds pour down showers of rain.
एवमुक्तास्तु ते सर्वे शस्त्रवृष्टीरपातयन्।॥ द्रौणिं प्रति महाराज जलं जलधरा इव।