ततः स यत्नम् आतिष्ठद् आचार्यस् तस्य वारणे ॥
न चास्यास्त्राणि राजेन्द्र प्रादुरासन् महात्मनः ॥
तस्य त्व् अहानि चत्वारि क्षपा चैकास्यतो गता ॥
तस्य चाह्नस् त्रिभागेन क्षयं जग्मुः पतत्रिणः ॥
स शरक्षयम् आसाद्य पुत्रशोकेन चार्दितः ॥
विविधानां च दिव्यानाम् अस्त्राणाम् अप्रसन्नताम् ॥
उत्स्रष्टुकामः शस्त्राणि विप्रवाक्याभिचोदितः ॥
तेजसा प्रेर्यमाणश् च युयुधे सो ऽतिमानुषम् ॥
tataḥ sa yatnam ātiṣṭhad ācāryas tasya vāraṇe ||
na cāsyāstrāṇi rājendra prādurāsan mahātmanaḥ ||
tasya tv ahāni catvāri kṣapā caikāsyato gatā ||
tasya cāhnas tribhāgena kṣayaṃ jagmuḥ patatriṇaḥ ||
sa śarakṣayam āsādya putraśokena cārditaḥ ||
vividhānāṃ ca divyānām astrāṇām aprasannatām ||
utsraṣṭukāmaḥ śastrāṇi vipravākyābhicoditaḥ ||
tejasā preryamāṇaś ca yuyudhe so 'timānuṣam ||
Then the teacher made an effort to repel it [the arrow], but his weapons, O lord of kings, did not appear for the great-souled one. For four days and one night he had passed in shooting, and by a third part of that day his arrows were exhausted. He, having exhausted his arrows and tormented by grief for his son, [seeing] the disfavor of the various divine weapons [toward him], wishing to lay down his weapons, impelled by the words of the brahmins, and yet drawn on by his own power, fought superhumanly.
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Drona, whose weapons no longer "appear," fought four days and a night without rest: even the unconquerable is exhausted. It is telling that the divine weapons turn away from him — heaven itself signals the end. The verse teaches that even the greatest power has a limit: when the time is fulfilled, familiar skill fails, and the weapon will not come to hand; and the wise have only to accept this as a call to lay down the sword — for the very weapons' aversion is the message that the hour has come.