O ruler of men, covered as he then was with those arrows, we could not seen that mighty car-warrior Drona, even as men cannot seen the sun covered when it is with clouds during the rainy season.
शरैस्तैरचितं द्रोणं नापश्याम महारथम्। भास्करं जलदै रुद्धं वर्षास्विव विशाम्पते॥