तं शब्दं तुमुलं श्रुत्वा द्रोणो यन्तारम् अब्रवीत् ॥
एष सूत रणे क्रुद्धः सात्वतानां महारथः ॥
दारयन् बहुधा सैन्यं रणे चरति कालवत् ॥
यत्रैष शब्दस् तुमुलस् तत्र सूत रथं नय ॥
पाषाणयोधिभिर् नूनं युयुधानः समागतः ॥
तथा हि रथिनः सर्वे ह्रियन्ते विद्रुतैर् हयैः ॥
विशस्त्रकवचा रुग्णास् तत्र तत्र पतन्ति च ॥
न शक्नुवन्ति यन्तारः संयन्तुं तुमुले हयान् ॥
taṃ śabdaṃ tumulaṃ śrutvā droṇo yantāram abravīt ||
eṣa sūta raṇe kruddhaḥ sātvatānāṃ mahārathaḥ ||
dārayan bahudhā sainyaṃ raṇe carati kālavat ||
yatraiṣa śabdas tumulas tatra sūta rathaṃ naya ||
pāṣāṇayodhibhir nūnaṃ yuyudhānaḥ samāgataḥ ||
tathā hi rathinaḥ sarve hriyante vidrutair hayaiḥ ||
viśastrakavacā rugṇās tatra tatra patanti ca ||
na śaknuvanti yantāraḥ saṃyantuṃ tumule hayān ||
"This one, charioteer, in battle enraged, the great warrior of the Satvatas, rending the army in many pieces, ranges in battle like Time itself. Where this tumultuous sound is, there, charioteer, drive the chariot. With stone-fighters, surely, Yuyudhana has met [them], for thus all the charioteers are borne off by their bolting horses. Stripped of weapons, [without] armor, broken, they fall here and there, [and] the drivers cannot restrain the horses in the tumult."
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Drona recognizes by the very signs of the rout where Satyaki is: "yuyudhānaḥ samāgataḥ" -- he discerns the fearsome one by the marks of devastation. It is telling that the master reads the battlefield like an open book. The verse teaches that to the experienced the truth is visible through its signs: where confusion and flight are thickest, there lies the seat of the force behind it -- and the wise do not head toward noise blindly, but move having discerned by the signs who its cause is.