If without sacrificing the interests of the Pandavas I can bring about their peace with the Kurus, then I shall have done a meritorious act, O great-souled one; and the Kurus shall have been liberated from the shackles of death.
अहापयन् च्छमं कुरूणां यदि चाचरेयम्। पुण्यं च मे स्याच्चरितं महात्मन् मुच्येरंश्च कुरवो मृत्युपाशात्॥