O Nārāyaṇa, you are ignorant of the timehonoured morality of Kşatriyas; and therefore like a base wight you slay us, desisting from fight and exercised with fear.
नारायण न जानीषे क्षात्रधर्म पुरातनम्। अयुद्धमनसो भीतानस्मान्हंसि यथेतरः॥