Vaishampayana said : The best of the descendant of Angirasa (Drona) first spoke to Yudhisthira thus, "O invincible one, aim with your arrow and shoot (the bird) as soon as I order.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच ततो युधिष्ठिरं पूर्वमुवाचाङ्गिरसां वरः। संधत्स्व बाणं दुर्घष मद्वाक्यान्ते विमुञ्च तम्॥