O Bharata, the slaying of a man who is not engaged in a fight, or is unwilling to fight, or takes to flight, or seeks your shelter, or joins his hands, or gives himself up to you, or is insane, be he even a foe, is never upheld by the righteous. And your superior is even all this.
अयुध्यमानस्य वधस्तथाशत्रोश्च मानदा। पराङ्मुखास्य द्रवतःशरणं चापि गच्छतः॥ कृताञ्जलेः प्रपन्नस्य प्रमत्तस्य तथैव च। न वधः पूज्यते सद्भिस्तच सर्व गुरौ तव॥