My life-breaths depend on you, O delighter of the Kurus. How is it that he who is the ver of other people's life-breaths, renounces his own life-breaths today?
त्वयि प्राणा ममायत्ता: कुरुणां कुरुनन्दन। स कस्मात् प्राणदोऽन्येषां प्राणान् संत्यक्तवानसि॥