"O Dhananjaya, in your very presence, Karna has repeatedly said to me-(you are) a eunuch, fool, child, glutton, (you are) unable to endure (the fury of) battle. He, that would tell me so, would be my victim. O Bharata, he (Karna) has said to me these words (and therefore, he must be slain by me),
पुनः पुनस्तूबरक मूढ औदरिकेति च। अकृतास्रक मा योत्सीर्बाल संग्रामकातर॥ इति मामब्रवीत् कर्णः पश्यतस्ते धनंजय। एवं वक्ता च मे वध्यस्तेन चोक्तोऽस्मि भारत॥