Do you, however, O Yudhishthira, fight me one at a time. It is not proper that one should in battle fight with many especially when that one is without armour, is fatigued, stricken with calamity, greatly wounded and shorn of both animals and troops.
एकैकेन तु मां यूयं योधयध्वं युधिष्ठिर। न ह्येको बहुभिवीरैाय्यो योधयितुं युधि॥ विशेषतो विकवचः श्रान्तश्चापत्समाश्रितः। भृशं विक्षतगात्रश्च श्रान्तवाहनसैनिकः॥