Remembering the duties of a Kshatriya go to fighting without harbouring any anxious feeling.” Thus spoken to, by the son of Vasudeva, with his head hung down and loO king askance, Arjuna as if unwilling said these words to the former. “Either to acquire monarchy with hell at the end by the slighter of those who ought not to be slain,
क्षत्रधर्ममनुस्मृत्य युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः। इत्युक्तो वासुदेवेन तिर्यग्दृष्टिरधोमुखः॥ अकाम इव बीभत्सुरिदं वचनमब्रवीत्। अवध्यानां वधं कृत्वा राज्यं वा नरकोत्तरम्॥