Heartless, indeed, are the duties of the Kshatriyas as specified by the law-givers, in as much as these duties even enjoin a hero, desirous of sovereignty, to shoot weapons at a mere child.
दारुणः क्षत्रधर्मोऽयं विहितो धर्मकर्तृभिः। यत्र राज्येप्सवः शूरा बाले शस्त्रमपातयन्॥