The son of Drona, who was thus carried away from the field, on those horses, as swift as the wind, became deeply afflicted with the arrows of the son of Pritha. Then that intelligent one (Ashvatthaman) having meditated for a while, liked not to return back with a view to fight with the son of Pritha. The most exalted one of the Angirasa's race, who was possessed of immense activity and who became destitute of all aspirations and who had all his arrows and weapons exhausted, after knowing that victory was ever with the chief of the Vrishni race and Dhananjaya, entered into the army of Karna.
द्रौणिर्दढं पार्थशराभिभूतः। इयेष नावृत्य पुनस्तु योद्धं पार्थेन सार्धं मतिमान् विमृश्य। जानञ्जयं नियतं वृष्णिवीरे धनंजये चाङ्गिरसां वरिष्ठः॥