Remembering your own righteousness and the words spoken by your self, check your wrath, O Gandhari! Do not act otherwise, O beautiful speeches lady!' hearing these words, Gandhari said,-'O holy one, I don not entertain any ill feelings towards the Pandavas, nor do I wish that they should die. Out of grief for the death of my sons, my heart is greatly shaken.
स्वं च धर्म परिस्मृत्य वाचं चोक्ता मनस्विनि। कोपं संयच्छ गान्धारि मैवं भूः सत्यवादिनि॥ भगवन्नाभ्यसूयामि नैतानिच्छामि नश्यतः। पुत्रशोकेन तु बलान्मनो विह्वलतीव मे॥