Fear is a strong instinctive feeling, though it can be overcome by will-power or strong motives like love, shame or hate, or more usually, by discipline.

Even men who have afterwards distin- guished themselves by heroic deeds have confessed to having felt something like panic fear, the first time they came under fire. Uttara was by no means anexceptional coward, for he fought and fell gauntly at Kuru kshetra.

Arjuna pursued the running prince,shouting to him to stop and behave like a Kshatriya. The braided hair of the charioteer began to dance and his clothes began to wave as he ran in pursuit of Uttara. The prince fled hither and thither, trying to dodge thehands that would stop him.