Then his friend Arjuna, highly distressed, affectionately addressing Keshava, who was then breathing like a snake and whose eyes were rolling in wrath, said 'Stop, O mightyarmed one! It behooves you not to falsify those words of yours viz., 'I will not fight,' that you had spoken before, O Keshava. Then, O descendant of Madhu's race, men will call your a liar.
तत एवमुवाचार्तः क्रोधपर्याकुलेक्षणम्॥ निःश्वसन्तं यथा नागमर्जुनः प्रणयात् सखा। निवर्तस्व महाबाहो नानृतं कर्तुमर्हसि॥ यत् त्वया कथितं पूर्वं न योत्स्यामिति केशव। मिथ्यावादीति लोकास्त्वां कथयिष्यन्ति माधव॥