What can be more distressing for a person than to have both Ahuka and Akrura on his side? What, again, is more painful for one than not to have both of them on his side?
स्यातां यस्याहुकाक्रूरौ किं नु दुःखतरं ततः। यस्य चापि न तौ स्यातां किं नु दुःखतरं ततः॥