War in Ancient India c5.s2.2

c5.s2.2

"To fight to the death for these great possessions (defence of family's honour and of country's welfare), to feel that it is honour to die for them and dishonour to retreat from them, to give up everything material for them, to war for them to the last man, is just, true and righteous war, and there is not a thought or a passion connected with it which does not exalt and ennoble, not only the persons and the nation which wage it but the whole body also of humanity to whom the great tradition of this defence is handed down, and whom the memory of it inspires, teaches and ennobles".⁵⁹