I must protest against Balarama's stand, which fills me with disgust. Do we not see in one and the same tree, one branch bowed with fruit and another sticking out gaunt and useless?

So,of these brothers, Krishna speaks words which breathe the spirit of dharma while Balarama's attitude is unworthy and if you grant-what cannot be doubted that the Kauravas cheated Yudhishthira of his share of the kingdom-why then, allowing them to keep it is as unjust as confirming a thief in the possession of his booty!

Any one, who finds fault with Dharmaputra, does so in cowardly fear of Duryodhana, not for any sound reason. O princes, forgive my harsh speech. Not of his own volition but because the Kauravas pressed and invited him to do so, did the in expert and unwilling Dharmaputra play with a sharper that game so fraught with disaster.

Why should he bow and supplicate before Duryodhana, now that he has fulfilled his pledges? Yudhishthira is not a mendicant and need not beg.