As that high-minded one did, so today will I protect, in this dreadful battle, this army of the Kurus, whose appearance is cheerless and whose zeal has been destroyed by the enemy, which is helpless and whose best warriors have already been slain.
हतप्रधानं त्विदमार्तरूपं परैर्हतोत्साहमनाथमद्य वै। मया कुरूणां परिपाल्यमाहवे बलं यथा तेन महात्मना तथा॥