Beholding the innocent king, the illustrious scion of the Bharata race seated encircled by his daughters-in-law, Gandhari, Vidura and other well-wishing relatives and friends and engaged in thinking of the same subject Sanjaya, with an aggrieved heart and suppressed accents said: " I am Sanjaya,.O great king. I bow to you, O foremost of the Bharatas.
तथा चासीनमनघं समन्तात् परिवारितम्॥ स्नुषाभिर्भरतश्रेष्ठ गान्धार्या विदुरेण च। तथान्यैश्च सुहृद्धिश्च ज्ञातिभिश्च हितैषिभिः॥ तमेव चार्थं ध्यायन्तं कर्णस्य निधनं प्रति। रुदन्नेवाब्रवीद् वाक्यं राजानं जनमेजय॥ नातिहष्टमना: सूतो वाक्यसंदिग्धया गिरा। संजयोऽहं नरव्याघ्र नमस्ते भरतर्षभ॥