Your son, seeking victory had requested you every day for the eighteen days of the battle, saying,-'O mother bless me who am fighting with my foes!' Solicited thus every day by your son desirous of victory, you always answered him saying,-'victory' is there where righteousness is.' I do not, O Gandhari, remember that your words, have ever been falsified! Those words, therefore, which you, requested by Duryodhana, said to him could not be false. You are always engaged in the well being of all creatures.
उक्तास्यष्टादशाहानि पुत्रेण जयमिच्छता। शिवमाशास्व मे मातयुध्यमानस्य शत्रुभिः॥ सा तथा याच्यमाना त्वं काले काले जयैषिणा। उक्तवत्यसि गान्धारि यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः॥ न चाप्यतीतां गान्धारि वाचं ते वितथामहम्। स्मरामि भाषमाणायास्तथा प्राणिहिता ह्यसि॥