She said: 'O Yagnavalkya, as the son of a warrior from the Kasis or Videhas might string his loosened bow, take two pointed foe-piercing arrows in his hand and rise to do battle, I have risen to fight thee with two questions. Answer me these questions.' Yagnavalkya said: 'Ask, O Gargi.'

In plain words: Gargi compares herself to a warrior who strings his bow and takes two sharp arrows into battle. She says her two questions are like those arrows. Yagnavalkya calmly tells her to ask.