Pandu said: O greatly fortunate ones, it is said that there is no heaven for a sonless. I am sonless. I speak to you in sorrow. O great ascetics, I am sorry, because I have not been able to free myself from the debt I owe to my forefathers.
पाण्डुरुवाच अप्रजस्य महाभागा न द्वारं परिचक्षते॥ स्वर्गे तेनाभितप्तोऽहमप्रजस्तु ब्रवीमि वः। पित्र्यादृणादनिर्मुक्तस्तेन तप्ये तपोधनाः॥