Did I think that Suyodhana ought to be slain by me when I came out of the forest, O you of the Vrishini race; but what you desire to do on behalf of your friends is not strange, O Krishna, though how that is capable of accomplishment by mildness or by other means (I do not see).
समाहूतो निवर्तेत प्राणत्यागेऽप्युपस्थिते। अधर्मेण जितान् दृष्ट्वा वने प्रव्रजितांस्तथा॥ वध्यतां मम वार्ष्णेय निर्गतोऽसौ सुयोधनः। न चैतदद्भुतं कृष्ण मित्रार्थं यच्चिकीर्षसि। क्रिया कथं च मुख्या स्यान्मृदुना चेतरेण वा॥