Then beholding that foremost of preceptors Drona, thus hemmed in on all sides, your sons, exerting their best, protected Drona in that battle.
तथा परिवृतं दृष्व द्रोणमाचार्यसत्तमम्। पुत्रास्ते सर्वतो यत्ता ररक्षुर्दोणमाहवे॥