Hearing those cries, O king, uttered in voice of pain suitable to that place, the royal Yudhishthira asked himself, What perverse destiny is this?
ता वाचः स तदा श्रुत्वा तद्देशसदृशीर्नृप। ततो विममृशे राजा किं त्विदं दैवकारितम्॥