An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s3.463

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[Drupadaçāsana(m)] (“the chastising of Drupada”). § 209 (Sambhavap.): Droṇa now one day asked the Dhārtarāshṭras and Pāṇḍavas for his fee as their instructor, saying: “Seize ye the Pāñcāla king Drupada in battle and bring him to me.” Duryodhana, Karṇa, Yuyutsu, Duḥҫāsana, Vikarṇa, Jalasandha, Sulovana, Subāhu, Dīrghalocana, etc., smote the Pāñcālas and conquered the capital of Drupada, while Arjuna, etc., waited outside the town at a distance of half a kroça, thinking that the others were not able to seize Drupada. Defeated by Drupada, they fell back upon the Pāṇḍavas. Arjuna, bidding Yudhishṭhira not to engage in the fight, appointed the sons of Mādrī his cakrarakshas, while Bhīmasena, mace in hand, ran ahead to slay the elephants, while Arjuna attacked the Pāñcālas and Sṛñjayas and felled Drupada from his elephant. Drupada and Satyajit rushed at Arjuna. Satyajit had his bows repeatedly cut in twain and his horses, etc., slain, and desisted from the fight.