Duryodhana said You will have, O Yudhishthira, to meet me one at a time. It is not meet that one hero should fight with many at the same time, especially when he is divested of armour, worn out with fatigue, covered with water, greatly wounded and without cars, animals and troops.
दुर्योधन उवाच एकैकेन च मां यूयमासीद् युधिष्ठिर। न ह्येको बहुभिाय्यो वीरो योधयितुं युधि॥ न्यस्तवर्मा विशेषेण श्रान्तश्चाप्सु परिप्लुतः। भृशं विक्षतगात्रश्च हतवाहनसैनिकः॥