Yet you had taken me as already slain. It is indeed a great foolishness on your part. You foremost of the Kurus, the slaughter of Bhurisravas achieved by me, in indeed very proper.
मन्यध्वं मृत इत्येवमेतद् वो बुद्धिलाघवम्। युक्तो ह्यस्य प्रतीघातः कृतो मे कुरुपुङ्गचाः॥