Thus he (Drona) lived there in privacy for sometime, when one day the (Kuru) princes all in a company came out of the city of Hastinapur. The princes began to play with a ball and when they were thus there playing, the ball fell into a well.
एवं स तत्र गूढात्मा कंचित् कालमुवास हा कुमारास्त्वथ निष्क्रम्य समेता गजसाह्वयात्॥ क्रीडन्तो वीटया तत्र वीराः पर्यचरन् मुदा। पपात कूपे सा वीटा तेषां वै क्रीडतां तदा।॥