: "O you of Madhu's race, today, with a cool understanding and resolving to fight nobly and resolutely, do you protect the king, till I succeed in slaying Jayadratha.
अद्य माधव राजानमप्रमत्तोऽनुपालय। आर्यो युद्धे मतिं कृत्वा यावद्धन्मि जयद्रथम्॥