www.wisdomlib.org (17 October 2010). "Section CXXXIV [Mahabharata, English]". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 24 January 2025. [Amongst those that came there, O monarch, was a prince named Ekalavya, who was the son of Hiranyadhanus, king of the Nishadas (the lowest of the mixed orders). Drona, however, cognisant of all rules of morality, accepted not the prince as his pupil in archery, seeing that he was a Nishada who might (in time) excel all his high-born pupils.]
