And having achieved these and other wondrous feats in battle, O foremost among the Kurus, that high-souled one, Drona, left this world for heaven, after having consumed this earth like the sun that rises at the time of the world's annihilations, O monarch.
एतानि चान्यानि च कौरवेन्द्र कर्माणि कृत्वा समरे महात्मा। प्रताप्य लोकानिव कालसूर्यो द्रोणो गतः स्वर्गमितो हि राजन्॥