कृप उवाच
वयं द्रोणं पुरस्कृत्य पृथिव्यां प्रवरं रथम् ॥
प्रावर्तयाम संग्रामं पाञ्चालैर् एव केवलैः ॥
ततः प्रवृत्ते संग्रामे विमिश्राः कुरुसोमकाः ॥
अन्योन्यम् अभिगर्जन्तः शस्त्रैर् देहान् अपातयन् ॥
ततो द्रोणो ब्राह्मम् अस्त्रं विकुर्वाणो नरर्षभः ॥
अहनच् छात्रवान् भल्लैः शतशो ऽथ सहस्रशः ॥
kṛpa uvāca
vayaṃ droṇaṃ puraskṛtya pṛthivyāṃ pravaraṃ ratham ||
prāvartayāma saṃgrāmaṃ pāñcālair eva kevalaiḥ ||
tataḥ pravṛtte saṃgrāme vimiśrāḥ kurusomakāḥ ||
anyonyam abhigarjantaḥ śastrair dehān apātayan ||
tato droṇo brāhmam astraṃ vikurvāṇo nararṣabhaḥ ||
ahanac chātravān bhallaiḥ śataśo 'tha sahasraśaḥ ||
[Kripa said:] "We, putting Drona forward, the finest charioteer on earth, began the battle with the Panchalas alone. Then, when the battle was joined, the Kurus and the Somakas [Panchalas] intermingled, and roaring at one another, they felled each other's bodies with weapons. Then Drona, wielding the brahma-weapon, bull among men, slew the enemy with bhalla-arrows by the hundreds and thousands."
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Kripa opens his sorrowful account with Drona's greatness: "the finest charioteer on earth," who slew enemies by the thousands. It is telling that a tale of death begins with praise of life -- memory renders the fallen his due before speaking of his fall. The verse teaches that to honor the departed rightly is first to name his greatness; and grief for the great is inseparable from grateful witness to what he was.