Sanjaya said, O sire, hearing all that has happened unto the Kauravas through thy

fault,
thou shouldst not feel any anguish! He that is wise never feeleth any pain at wh
at Destiny
bringeth! And since Destiny is unconquerable, human purposes may or may not beco
me
attainable. Hence, he that is wise never feeleth pain on the acquisition or the
reverse of the
objects cherished by him.
Dhritarashtra said, I do not feel great pain, O Sanjaya! I regard all this to be t
he result
of Destiny! Tell me all that thou wishest!
Section III
Sanjaya said, Upon the fall of the great bowman Drona, thy sons, those mighty carw
arriors,
became pale and deprived of their senses. Armed with weapons, all of them, O
monarch, hung down their heads. Afflicted with grief and without looking at one
another, they
stood perfectly silent. Beholding them with such afflicted countenances, thy tro
ops, O Bharata,
themselves perturbed by grief, vacantly gazed upwards. Seeing Drona slain in bat
tle, the
weapons of many of them, O king, dyed with blood, dropped from their hands. Innu
merable
weapons, again, O Bharata, still retained in the grasp of the soldiers, seemed i
n their pendent
attitude, to resemble falling meteors in the sky. Then king Duryodhana, O monarc
h, beholding
that army of thine thus standing as if paralysed and lifeless, said, Relying upon
the might of
your army I have summoned the Pandavas to battle and caused this passage-at-arms
to
commence! Upon the fall of Drona, however, the prospect seems to be cheerless. W
arriors
engaged in battle all die in battle. Engaged in battle, a warrior may have eithe
r victory or death.
What can be strange then in this (viz., the death of Drona)?