O Sanjaya, even as the playful boys having caught a bird and torn off its wings most cheerfully let it go. And whose (the bird's) flight does not become possible in consequence of the loss of its wings; so I have become (motionless) like the bird deprived of its wings.
यथा हि शकुनि गृह्य छित्वा पक्षौ च संजय॥ विसर्जयन्ति संहृष्टाः क्रीडमानाः कुमारकाः। लूनपक्षतया तस्य गमनं नोपपद्यते॥ तथाऽमहपि सम्प्राप्तो लूनपक्ष इव द्विजः।