While Govinda, that foremost one of the Satwata race, saying these words, Drona's son, filled with anger, replied, saying,-"This, O Keshava, which you say from your partiality for the Pandavas, shall never take place. O you having eyes like lotus petals, my words cannot but be fulfilled.
एवं ब्रुवाणं गोविन्दं सात्वतां प्रवरं तदा। द्रौणिः परमसंरब्धः प्रत्युवाचेदमुत्तरम्॥ नैतदेवं यथाऽऽत्य त्वं पक्षपातेन केशव। वचनं पुण्डरीकाक्ष न च मद्वाक्यमन्यथा॥