You know, O Keshava, the best scion of the Dasharha race, that my vow is that whoever among men tells me 'make over, O Partha, your Gandiva to him who is superior to you in point of chivalry or in wielding armours' I will, with all my mighty, slay him. So Bhima also has taken a vow to slay the man who addresses him as 'one without the hirsute indications of manhood!' Just now the king has repeatedly told me in your presence “make over your bow.
जानासि दासार्ह मम व्रतं त्वं यो मां ब्रूयात् कश्चन मानुषेषु। अन्यस्मै त्वं गाण्डिव देहि पार्थ त्वत्तोऽस्त्रैर्वा वीर्यतो वा विशिष्टः॥ हन्यामहं केशव तं प्रसह्य भीमो हन्यात् तूबरकेति चोक्तः। तन्मे राजा प्रोक्तवास्ते समक्षं धनुर्देहीत्यसकृद् वृष्णिवीर॥