Sometime before, the son of Pandu, while searching for the king, had met those men and asked them the whereabouts of Duryodhana.
ते पूर्वं पाण्डुपुत्रेण पृष्टा ह्यासन् सुतं तव। यदृच्छोपगतास्तत्र राजान् परिमार्गता॥