“May good betide you. Do you first inform Ashvatthaman of the cause of this flight of our troops. Thereupon o king, Saradvata's son, repeatedly over-whelmed with sorrow, said to Drona's son how Drona had been slain.
अथ शारद्वतो राजन्नार्तिमार्छन् पुनः पुनः। शशंस द्रोणपुत्राय यथा द्रोणो निपातितः॥