I have now become calm, O Sanjaya; relate to me how this slaughter of heroes is went onslaughter that owes its origin to my evil policy.
यथा ह्येष क्षयो वृत्तो ममापनयसम्भवः। वीराणां तन्ममाचक्ष्व स्थिरीभूतोऽस्मि संजय॥