“How can a stripping of a Brahmana unpractised in arms and weak a strength, string that bow which such celebrated Kshatriyas like Shalya and others endued with great might and accomplished in the science and practice of arms could not string?
यत् कर्णशल्यप्रमुखैः क्षत्रियैर्लोकविश्रुतैः। नानतं बलवदभिर्हि धनुर्वेदपरायणैः॥ तत् कथं त्वकृतास्त्रेण प्राणतो दुर्बलीयसा। बटुमात्रेण शक्यं हि सज्यं कर्तुं धनुर्द्विजाः॥