You should tell me, O chief of Kuru's race, whether women are truly capable of being governed within the limits prescribed by the scriptures or whether any one before our time did really succeeded in so controlling them.
तथा ब्रूहि महाभाग कुरूणां वंशवर्धन। यदि शक्या कुरुश्रेष्ठ रक्षा तासां कदाचन। कर्तुं वा कृतपूर्वं वा तन्मे व्याख्यातुमर्हसि॥