If the son of Kunti had been playing with his brothers at home and those people coming there, defeated him, then that would have been a proper defeat. But they challenged the king who was ever attached to the observance of the rites of a Kshatriya. They won by a mean trick; how can prosperity attend such men? And why should those man here, after fulfilling his vow, approach them in a humiliating spirit.
एवमप्ययमत्यन्तं यदि कुन्तीसुतं गेहे क्रीडन्तं भ्रातृभिः सह। अभिगम्य जयेयुस्ते तत् तेषां धर्मतो भवेत्। समाहूय तु राजानं क्षत्रधर्मरतं सदा॥ निकृत्या जितवन्तस्ते किं नु तेषां परं शुभम्। कथं प्रणिपतेच्चायमिह कृत्वा पणं परम्॥