The hero, by not retreating from battle and fighting by every means in his power, careless of life itself, at the van of battle, lives with Indra.
सर्वोपायै रणमुखमातिष्ठंस्त्यक्तजीवितः। प्राप्नोतीन्द्रस्य सालोक्यं शूरः पृष्ठमदर्शयन्॥