“No” I said to them “according to the duty of a Kshatriya, this is my vow, that never from battle, I will turn back or suffer my back to be wondered by arrows. Not from covering any objects of desire, nor from fear, nor for the sake of wealth,
इत्यवोचमहं तांश्च क्षत्रधर्मव्यपेक्षया। मम व्रतमिदं लोके नाहं युद्धात् कदाचन॥ विमुखो विनिवर्तेयं पृष्ठतोऽभ्याहतः शरैः। नाहं लोभान्न कार्पण्यान्न भयानार्थकारणात्॥