Thus addressed, Drona discharged at him more than twenty shafts. But the light-handed Partha severed them all before they could fall down on him.
ततोऽस्मै प्राहिणोद् द्रोणः शरानधिकविंशतिम्। अप्राप्तांश्चैव तान् पार्थश्चिच्छेद कृतहस्तवत्॥