This indeed should be your foremost duty in the course of this fight." O mighty monarch, Dhrishtadyumna then replied to Vrikodara
एतद्धि सर्वकार्याणां परमं कृत्यमाहवे। तमब्रवीन्महाराज धृष्टद्युम्नो वृकोदरम्॥