Even a highly powerful lion may be killed, if left unprotected, by an wolf. Let us not therefore allow (by any means) Bhishma to be killed by Shikhandin as a lion killed by a jackal. two
अरक्ष्यमाणं हि वृको हन्यात् सिहं महाबलम्। मा सिहं जम्बुकेनेव घातयामः शिखण्डिना॥