I could not possibly behold passively Satyaki reduced to that plight. It is proper that you should reproach your own self in as much as you neglected to protect yourself (when trying to injure another). Indeed O hero, how would you yourself have behaved towards one who would be your dependent.
यदिच्छसि शिरश्चास्य असिना हन्तुमाहवे। तथा कृच्छ्रगतं चैव सात्यकिं कः क्षमिष्यति॥ त्वं वै विगर्हयात्मानमात्मानं यो न रक्षसि। कथं करिष्यसे वीर यो वा त्वां संश्रयेज्जनः॥