Who, binding himself hand and foot and tying a huge stone to his neck, would wish to swim across the ocean with his bare arms? What manliness is there? O Karna, a fool is he, who, without strength and skill in arms, desires to fight with Partha who is so powerful and skilled in weapons? Oppressed by us and freed from thirteen years' exile, will he not destroy us like a lion liberated from the noose? Having unknowingly come to a place where Partha lay hidden like fire we have been exposed to a great danger. Although dreadful in battle we should fight against him.
समुद्रं तरते दोभ्यां तत्र किं नाम पौरुषम्॥ अकृतास्त्रः कृतास्त्रं वै बलवन्तं सुदुर्बलः। तादृशं कर्ण यः पार्थं योद्धुमिच्छेत् स दुर्मतिः॥ अस्माभिर्वेष निकृतो वर्षाणीह त्रयोदश। सिंहः पाशविनिर्मुक्तो न नः शेषं करिष्यति॥ एकान्ते पार्थमासीनं कूपेऽग्निमिव संवृतम्। अज्ञानादभ्यवस्कन्ध प्राप्ताः स्मो भयमुत्तमम्॥ सह युध्यामहे पार्थमागतं युद्धदुर्मदम्।