People generally, as also those well-read in the scriptures, always prefer means which are certain to those which are uncertain. Censure and bad name, which soever this act may engender, ought to be incurred by a person who leads the life of a Kshatriya. The sinful Pandavas have, at every step, perpetrated very ugly, censurable and deceitful acts.
तं जना बहुः मन्यन्ते ये च शास्त्रविशारदाः। यचाप्यत्र भवेद् वाच्यं गर्हितं लोकनिन्दितम्॥ कर्तव्यं तन्मनुष्येण क्षत्रधर्मेण वर्तता। निन्दितानि च सर्वाणि कुत्सितानि पदे पदे॥ सोपधानि कृतान्येव पाण्डवैरकृतात्मभिः।