If you now abandon me, you should have told me of it in the beginning. We two shall vanquish the sons of Pandu in battle even these were the words, you said to me, o you givers of honor. Hearing those words of yours, I then allowed these proceedings. Otherwise I would never have provoked these hostilities with the Parthas-hostilities that are so destructive of heroic combatants.
यद्यहं भवतोस्त्याज्यो न वाच्योऽस्मि तदैव हि। आवां पाण्डुसुतान् संख्ये जेष्याव इति मानदौ॥ तदैवाहं वचः श्रुत्वा भवद्भ्यामनुसम्मतम्। नाकरिष्यमिदं पार्वैरं योधविनाशनम्॥