SB 1.7.44–45
अस्त्रग्रामश्च भवता शिक्षितो यदनुग्रहात् ॥ ४४ ॥
स एष भगवान्द्रोणः प्रजारूपेण वर्तते।
तस्यात्मनोऽर्धं पत्न्यास्ते नान्वगाद्वीरसूः कृपी ॥ ४५ ॥
astra-grāmaś ca bhavatā śikṣito yad-anugrahāt
sa eṣa bhagavān droṇaḥ prajā-rūpeṇa vartate
tasyātmano’rdhaṁ patny āste nānvagād vīrasūḥ kṛpī
Synonyms
saḥ eṣaḥ — that very; bhagavān — honorable; droṇaḥ — Droṇācārya; yat anu-grahāt — by whose grace; dhanuḥ-vedaḥ — the art of archery; sa-rahasyaḥ — with its secrets [meaning its secret mantras (gopya-mantra-sahitaḥ)166]; ca — and; astra-grāmaḥ — [the use of] an assortment of weapons [astra-samūhaḥ]; sa-visarga-upasaṁyamaḥ — along with the knowledge of how to deploy and retract them [visargo’stra prayogaḥ upasaṁyamaḥ upasaṁhāraḥ tābhyāṁ sahitaḥ]; śikṣitaḥ — were learnt; bhavatā — by you; vartate — lives on; prajā-rūpeṇa — in the form of his son [Aśvatthāmā]; [Draupadī is here suggesting that Arjuna’s treatment of Aśvatthāmā was an act of ingratitude toward his teacher (akṛtajñatā dhvanitā), since if he had not learnt the art of deploying and retracting the brahmāstra from Aśvatthāmā’s father (yadi etat pituḥ sakāśān nājñāsyas), he would not have been able to bind and bring him to her in the first place (tadā katham imaṁ badhvā tvam āneṣya iti)167]; tasya — his [Droṇa’s]; patnī — wife; kṛpī — Kṛpī, the sister of Kṛpācārya; ardham — [who is] the better half; ātmanaḥ — of his body [dehasya]; āste — is still alive [jīvati]; na anvagāt — [since] she did not follow [her husband (bhartāram), on the funeral pyre]; [because (yataḥ)]; vīrasūḥ — she has a son [putravatī].
Translation
The honorable Droṇācārya, by whose grace you have learned the art of archery, with its secret mantras, and the use of an assortment of weapons, along with the knowledge of how to deploy and retract them, lives on in the form of his son [Aśvatthāmā]. His wife Kṛpī, who is his better half, is still alive, since she did not follow her husband [on the funeral pyre], because she has a son.