Brave as you are do you become our commander-in-chief. When you will go to battle, the Pandavas, with their friends, will lose heart and the Panchalas will be depressed."
स भवानस्तु न शूरः प्रणेता वाहिनीमुखे॥ रणं याते च भवति पाण्डवा मन्दचेतसः। भविष्यन्ति सहामात्यः पञ्चालाश्च निरुद्यमा:॥