सात्यकिर् उवाच
न हन्तव्यो न हन्तव्य इति यन् मां प्रभाषथ ॥
धर्मवादैर् अधर्मिष्ठा धर्मकञ्चुकम् आस्थिताः ॥
यदा बालः सुभद्रायाः सुतः शस्त्रविनाकृतः ॥
युष्माभिर् निहतो युद्धे तदा धर्मः क्व वो गतः ॥
मया त्व् एतत् प्रतिज्ञातं क्षेपे कस्मिंश् चिद् एव हि ॥
यो मां निष्पिष्य संग्रामे जीवन् हन्यात् पदा रुषा ॥
स मे वध्यो भवेच् छत्रुर् यद्य् अपि स्यान् मुनिव्रतः ॥
sātyakir uvāca
na hantavyo na hantavya iti yan māṃ prabhāṣatha ||
dharmavādair adharmiṣṭhā dharmakañcukam āsthitāḥ ||
yadā bālaḥ subhadrāyāḥ sutaḥ śastravinākṛtaḥ ||
yuṣmābhir nihato yuddhe tadā dharmaḥ kva vo gataḥ ||
mayā tv etat pratijñātaṃ kṣepe kasmiṃś cid eva hi ||
yo māṃ niṣpiṣya saṃgrāme jīvan hanyāt padā ruṣā ||
sa me vadhyo bhavec chatrur yady api syān munivrataḥ ||
[Satyaki said:] "'He must not be killed, he must not be killed' — this is what you keep telling me, you who speak of dharma while being yourselves most unrighteous, having put on the garb of dharma! When the boy, Subhadra's son [Abhimanyu], deprived of his weapons, was slain by you in battle — where did your dharma go then? And I vowed this, at some insult: that whoever, having crushed me in battle, should in rage strike me while I yet lived, with his foot..."
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Satyaki turns the reproach back on his accusers with their own weapon: "you who speak of dharma — where was it when you killed the unarmed boy?" It is telling that he names it dharmakañcukam, the garb of dharma: he exposes the hypocrisy that cloaks an old wrong. The verse teaches that a rebuke is powerless in the mouth of one who shares the same guilt; yet a counter-accusation does not clean one's own deed either — two wrongs, each pointing at the other, only show how one injustice breeds another.