Mahabharata · Chapter 5.80
yadetatkathitaṃ rājñā dharma eṣa sanātanaḥ /
yathā ca yuddhameva syāttathā kāryamarindama //
yadi prasamamiccheyuḥ kuravaḥ pāṇḍavaiḥ saha /
tathāpi yuddhaṃ dāśārha yojayethāḥ sahaiva taiḥ //
kathaṃ nu dṛṣṭvā pāñcālīṃ tathā kṛṣṇa sabhāgatām /
avadhena praśāmyeta mama manyuḥ suyodhane //
yadi bhīmārjunau kṛṣṇa dharmarājaśca dhārmikaḥ /
dharmamutsṛjya tenāhaṃ yoddhumicchāmi saṃyuge //
brūhi madvacanaṃ kṛṣṇa suyodhanamapaṇḍitam /
kṛcchre vane vā vastavyaṃ pure vā nāgasāhvaye //
sātyakiruvāca /
satyamāha mahābāho sahadevo mahāmatiḥ /
duryodhanavadhe śāntistasya kopasya me bhavet //
na jānāsi yathā dṛṣṭvā cīrājinadharānvane /
tavāpi manyuruddhūto duḥkhitānprekṣya pāṇḍavān //
tasmānmādrīsutaḥ śūro yadāha raṇakarkaśaḥ /
vacanaṃ sarvayodhānāṃ tanmataṃ puruṣottama //
vaiśampāyana uvāca /
evaṃ vadi vākyaṃ tu yuyudhāne mahāmatau /
subhīmaḥ siṃhanādo'bhūdyodhānāṃ tatra sarvaśaḥ //
sarve hi sarvaśo vīrāstadvacaḥ pratyapūjayan /
sādhusādhviti śaineyaṃ harṣayanto yuyutsavaḥ //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0