In fact all human beings were then unaware of the fact that Drona had attained to the highest mode of existence. None of them could then descry the preceptor, that subduer of foes, ascend to the region of Brahma, devoted to yoga, in company with the best of sages, his body mangled with arrows and steeped in blood after he had set aside his weapons.
गतिं परमिकां प्राप्तमजानन्तो नृयोनयः। नापश्यन् गच्छमानं हि तं सार्धमृषिपुङ्गवैः॥ आचार्यं योगमास्थाय ब्रह्मलोकमरिंदमम्। वितुन्नाङ्गं शरव्रातैस्तायुधमसृकक्षरम्॥