If you, without defeating them and taking back your kine, return home, all men and women, O hero, when they will meet, will laugh at you.
न चेद् विजित्य गास्तास्त्वं गृहान् वै प्रतियास्यसि। प्रहसिष्यन्ति वीरास्त्वां नरा नार्यश्च संगताः॥