As persons become freed off of all their sins by taking the final bath in a horse-sacrifice, so those who die by weapons while fighting wicked people are freed off of all their sins.
यथाश्वमेधावभृथे स्नाताः पूता भवन्त्युत। दुष्कृतस्य प्रणाशेन ततः शस्त्रहता रणे॥