तस्य तच् छिद्रम् आज्ञाय धृष्टद्युम्नः समुत्थितः ॥
खड्गी रथाद् अवप्लुत्य सहसा द्रोणम् अभ्ययात् ॥
हाहाकृतानि भूतानि मानुषाणीतराणि च ॥
द्रोणं तथागतं दृष्ट्वा धृष्टद्युम्नवशं गतम् ॥
हाहाकारं भृशं चक्रुर् अहो धिग् इति चाब्रुवन् ॥
द्रोणो ऽपि शस्त्राण्य् उत्सृज्य परमं साम्यम् आस्थितः ॥
tasya tac chidram ājñāya dhṛṣṭadyumnaḥ samutthitaḥ ||
khaḍgī rathād avaplutya sahasā droṇam abhyayāt ||
hāhākṛtāni bhūtāni mānuṣāṇītarāṇi ca ||
droṇaṃ tathāgataṃ dṛṣṭvā dhṛṣṭadyumnavaśaṃ gatam ||
hāhākāraṃ bhṛśaṃ cakrur aho dhig iti cābruvan ||
droṇo 'pi śastrāṇy utsṛjya paramaṃ sāmyam āsthitaḥ ||
Recognizing that weakness of his, Dhrishtadyumna rose up; sword in hand, leaping down from his chariot, he suddenly rushed upon Drona. The beings cried out, human and other, seeing Drona come to such a state, fallen into the power of Dhrishtadyumna. Loudly they cried "alas!" and said "oh, shame!"; Drona, however, laying down his weapons, established himself in supreme equanimity [samya].
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While all creation cries "alas!", Drona himself abides in paramam samyam -- supreme equanimity, unshaken before the face of death. Significant is the contrast: the world's turmoil against the perfect calm of one who has already withdrawn within. The verse teaches that the liberated soul meets the body's end without trembling, for he has identified himself not with it but with what does not perish; and the cry "oh, shame!" condemns not his fate but the baseness of the blow struck against an unarmed sage.