Markandeyapurana 37.13

37.13

subāhurapi no yāñcāṃ cakāra matimāṃstadā /
na dharmaḥ kṣatriyasyeti yāñcā vīryadhano hi saḥ //

That king collected together his army against Alarka, and despatched a messenger to demand that the kingdom should be gived up to Subāhu. Alarka refused, cognizant of his own justice, to give up the kingdom then in obedience to that command, and returned answer to the messenger of the king of Kāśī;—“Let my elder brother come to me with affection and ask for the kingdom for himself. I will not yield up the smallest bit of territory through fear on an attack.” Even wise Subāhu made no request then. Supplication is not the duty of kṣatriyas, for he was mighty in valour.