The duties of Kshatriyas are highly dreadful and are always connected with the use of weapons, and it has been ordained, O chief of the Bharatas, that they should, when the time comes, die by weapons on the field of battle.
क्षात्रधर्मो महारौद्रःशस्त्रनित्य इति स्मृतः। वधश्च भरतश्रेष्ठ काले शस्त्रेण संयुगे॥