O father, employ any of these means which appear to you faultless. Time passes away, we should not make any further delay. So long their confidence in that best of kings Drupada is not established, we may succeed, but not after (when it has been established).
एतेषामप्युपायानां यस्ते निर्दोषवान् मतः। तस्य प्रयोगमातिष्ठ पुरा कालोऽतिवर्तते॥ यावद्ध्यकृतविश्वासा दुपदे पार्थिवर्षभे। तावदेव हि ते शक्या न शक्यास्तु ततः परम्॥