O descendant of Bharata, even after much deliberation, that best of kings, (Drupada) did not find any means to overcome the prowess, the discipline, the raining and the accomplishments of Drona by his Kshatriya might. Wandering about the king came (at last) to the hermitage of a Brahmana situate on the banks of the holy Gangas. There was no Brahmana who was not a Snataka and none who was not of rigid vows.
प्रभावं विनयं शिक्षा द्रोणस्य चरितानि च। क्षात्रेण च बलेनास्य चिन्तयन् नाध्यगच्छत्॥ प्रतिकर्तुं नृपश्रेष्ठो यतमानोऽपि भारत। अभितः सोऽथ कल्माषीं गङ्गाकूले परिभ्रमन्॥ ब्राह्मणावसथं पुण्यमाससाद महीपतिः। तत्र नास्नातकः कश्चिन्न चासीदव्रती द्विजः॥