That highly powerful one conversant with the nature of all omens beholding various omens on all sides, thus addressed his son who had also been consuming the ranks of the enemy.
निमित्तानि निमित्तज्ञः सर्वतो वीक्ष्य वीर्यवान्। प्रतपन्तमनीकानि द्रोणः पुत्रमभाषत॥