Listen to me, O Karna, I tell you the truth, thinking of this Drona in battle that there is none amongst you excepting myself who can withstand the advancing Arjuna the heroes who resembled the most dreadful Regent of Death.
स संस्मरन् द्रोणमहं महाहवे ब्रवीमि सत्यं कुरवो निबोधत। न वा मदन्यः प्रसहेद् रणेऽर्जुनं समागतं मृत्युमिवोग्ररूपिणम्॥