He who wishes to fight with Arjuna should take some medicine. You desire to take out the fangs of an angry, venomous snake by stretching out your right hand and extending your fore-finger. Or going alone in the forest you wish to ride an infuriated elephant and go to a town without a hook in hand. Or rubbed over with clarified butter and clad in silken raiment you wish to go through a burning fire blazing with fat, tallow and clarified butter.
यस्तेनाशंसते योद्धं कर्तव्यं तस्य भेषजम्॥ आशीविषस्य क्रुद्धस्य पाणिमुद्यम्य दक्षिणम्। अवमुच्य प्रदेशिन्या दंष्ट्रामादातुमिच्छसि॥ अथवा कुद्द्वारं मत्तमेकं एव चरन् वने। अनङ्कुशं समारुह्य नगरं गन्तुमिच्छसि॥ समिद्धं पावकं चैव घृतमेदोवसाहुतम्। घृताक्तश्चारवासास्त्वं मध्येनोत्तर्तुमिच्छसि॥ आत्मानं कः समुद्बद्ध्य कण्ठे बद्ध्वा महाशिलम्।