Verse 23

²⁰They heard that their kinsmen were well and asked each other after their good and their health; and then Rama spoke, plainly and without hesitation. ²¹Ugrasena, the lord of the lords of the earth, has laid a command on you. Hear it with your minds undistracted and do it without putting it off. ²²That you, many of you against one, beat a man who kept dharma, and beat him by wrongdoing, and bound him: I will bear that, for the wish that the kinsmen should hold together. ²³The Kurus heard this speech of Baladeva's, swelling with courage and valour and strength and level with his own power; and they were furious, and said: