This is not proper for you, O you of long arms, to abandon a girl who has taken refuge with you. If, O Rama, Bhishma being challenged by you in fight,
शरणागतां महाबाहो कन्यां न त्यक्तुमर्हसि। यदि भीष्मो रणे राम समाहूतस्त्वया मृधे॥