Though respected of all the world, O best of the Kurus, and though we have been born among men, O grandfather, having been begotten by the very gods, yet when so much sorrow has come to us, it appears, O reverened chief, that birth in an embodied form is the root of all sorrow! Alas, when shall we adopt a life of Renunciation which dissipates sorrow?
लोकसम्भावितैर्दुःखं यत् प्राप्तं कुरुसत्तम। प्राप्य जाति मनुष्येषु देवैरपि पितामह॥ कदा वयं करिष्यामः संन्यासं दुःखसंज्ञकम्। दुःखमेतच्छरीराणां धारणं कुरुसत्तम॥