No limb below the navel should be struck. This is the rule laid down in treatises! Bhima, however, is an ignorant wretch, unacquainted with the code of war! He, therefore, acted as he likes.'
अधो नाभ्यां न हन्तव्यमिति शास्त्रस्य निश्चयः। अयं त्वशास्त्रविन्मूढः स्वच्छन्दात् सम्प्रवर्तते॥