Then honouring Drona with shouts the like of which fill the ear during a holy day, with sounds of benedictory utterances, with eulogies, songs and cries of bards, minstrels and panegyrists, with the cries of victory uttered by the foremost of regenerate ones and with the frolics of mimes, the Kauravas considered the sons of Pandu as already worsted in battle.
ततः पुण्याहघोषेण स्वस्तिवादस्वनेन च। संस्तवैतिशब्दैश्च सूतमागधबन्दिनाम्॥ जयशब्दैजिएयाणां सुभगानर्तितैस्तथा। सत्कृत्य विधिना द्रोणं मेनिरे पाण्डवाञ्जितान्॥