TEXT 16
tada sucas te pramrjami bhadre
yad brahma-bandhoh sira atatayinah
gandiva-muktair visikhair upahare
tvakramya yat snasyasi dagdha-putra
SYNONYMS
tadaat that time only; sucahtears in grief; teyour; pramrjamishall wipe away; bhadreO gentle lady; yatwhen; brahma-bandhohof a degraded brahmana; sirahhead; atatayinahof the aggressor; gandiva-muktaihshot by the bow named Gandiva; visikhaihby the arrows; upahareshall present to you; tvayourself; akramyariding on it; yatwhich; snasyasitake your bath; dagdha-putraafter burning the sons.
TRANSLATION
O gentle lady, when I present you with the head of that brahmana, after beheading him with arrows from my Gandiva bow, I shall then wipe the tears from your eyes and pacify you. Then, after burning your sons' bodies, you can take your bath standing on his head.
PURPORT
An enemy who sets fire to the house, administers poison, attacks all of a sudden with deadly weapons, plunders wealth or usurps agricultural fields, or entices one's wife is called an aggressor. Such an aggressor, though he be a brahmana or a so-called son of a brahmana, has to be punished in all circumstances. When Arjuna promised to behead the aggressor named Asvatthama, he knew well that Asvatthama was the son of a brahmana, but because the so-called brahmana acted like a butcher, he was taken as such, and there was no question of sin in killing such a brahmana's son who proved to be a villain.

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