Operpetuator of the Kuru race, O king, the foremost of Brahmanas, being persecuted by the robbers, will like crows fly in fear and in great speed to rivers, to mountains and to inaccessible regions. Being afflicted with tasks imposed on them by cruel kings,
आश्रयिष्यन्ति च नदी: पर्वतान् विषमाणि च। प्रधावमाना वित्रस्ता द्विजाः कुरुकुलोद्वह॥ दस्युभिः पीडिता राजन् काका इव द्विजोत्तमाः। कुराजभिश्च सततं करभारप्रपीडिताः॥