Karna said It is not proper for you, O grandfather, to say to me the words you have spoken. I observe the rules of the Kshatriya caste and am not fallen from my own virtue.
कर्ण उवाच नैवमायुष्मता वाच्यं यन्मामात्थ पितामह। क्षत्रधर्मे स्थितो ह्यस्मि स्वधर्मादनपेयिवान्॥