Vaishampayana said : Being desirous of giving his grand sons a superior education, Bhishma was in search of a preceptor, who was endued with energy and who was well-skilled in the science of arms. O best of the Bharata race, deciding that none who was not possessed of great intelligence, who was not illustrious, who was not a perfect master of the science of arms, who was not as powerful as the celestial, shall be the preceptor of the Kurus, the son of Ganga (Bhishma), placed the Pandavas and the Kurus under the tuition of the son of Bharadvaja, the wise Drona, learned in all the Vedas. Having been honoured according to the proper form by the illustrious Bhishma.
वैशम्पायन उवाच विशेषार्थी ततो भीष्मः पौत्राणां विनयेप्सया॥ इष्वस्त्रज्ञान् पर्यपृच्छदाचार्यान् वीर्यसम्मतान्। नाल्पधी महाभागस्तथानानास्त्रकोविदः॥ नादेवसत्त्वो विनयेत् कुरूनस्त्रे महाबलान्। इति संचिन्त्य गाङ्गेयस्तदा भरतसत्तमः॥ द्रोणाय वेदविदुषे भारद्वाजाय धीमते। पाण्डवान् कौरवांश्चैव ददौ शिष्यान् नरर्षभ।॥