Meanwhile, Drona that foremost of all wielders of weapons, encountering Drupada, pierced him with there fierce arrows.
एतस्मिन्नेव काले तु द्रोणः शस्त्रभृतां वरः। दुपदं त्रिभिरासाद्य शरैर्विव्याध दारुणैः॥