Thereupon that hero (Karna), who was well-versed in the code of morality and did not slaughter him (Nakula), who was almost within the reach of Death himself. Then, O monarch, resembling the words of Kunti, he (Karna) let hiin go.
वधप्राप्तं तु तं शरो नाहनद् धर्मवित्तदा। स्मृत्वा कुन्त्यावचो राजंस्तत एनं व्यसर्जयत्॥