O chastiser of foes, touching Drona's feet with his head, he went into a forest and made a clay statue of Drona. He began to worship it (the clay figure) as if were his real preceptor and before that figure he practiced the use of arms with the most rigid regularity.
स तु द्रोणस्य शिरसा पादौ गृह्य परंतपः। अरण्यमनुसम्प्राप्य कृत्वा द्रोणं महीमयम्॥ तस्मिन्नाचार्यवृत्तिं च परमामास्थितस्तदा। इष्वस्त्रे योगमातस्थे परं नियमास्थितः॥