Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 1: Arjuna's Despair
Bhagavad Gita 1.9
अन्ये च बहवः शूरा मदर्थे त्यक्तजीविताः ।
नानाशस्त्रप्रहरणाः सर्वे युद्धविशारदाः ॥
anye ca bahavaḥ śūrā madarthe tyaktajīvitāḥ | nānāśastrapraharaṇāḥ sarve yuddhaviśāradāḥ ||
And many other heroes who are ready to give up their lives for me, armed with weapons of many kinds, all of them skilled in war.
Modern context
'Ready to die for me,' he says, and his words say more than he intends: literally, 'their lives already given up.' A leader who measures loyalty by what others will sacrifice for him has stopped asking what the cause itself is worth.