'If you had performed that heroic deed then, when during the game you seized the mace and wished to burn your arms, but were stopped by Phalguna — what harm would there have been in it? Why did you not say all this before the terms were accepted? Now that the time has been agreed, why do you press me so excessively? I myself am in pain, as though I had tasted poison, that we endured Draupadi's humiliation. But now the word given among the heroes of the Kurus cannot be broken. Wait for the time of joy to come, as a sower waits for the ripening of the fruit. When one who was first deceived by deceit, having awaited the fruit of enmity in flower and in fruit, seizes back the great good by his valor, then he truly lives in the world of the living: enemies bow before him, friends serve him with great love, as the gods live by Indra. But know my true vow: I choose dharma above immortality and life itself. Kingdom, sons, fame, and wealth — none of it attains even a fraction of truth.'