Death is preferable, for him who has no wealth, to the acquisition of wealth by the slaughter of his kinsmen. What good 0 Krishna, shall we reap, slaughtering these our kinsmen assembled together.
अधनस्य मृतं श्रेयो न च ज्ञातिवधाद् धनम्। किं न प्राप्स्यामहे कृष्ण हत्वा ज्ञातीन् समागतान्॥