Yudhishthira said When both virtue and men, O Bharata, suffer for the gradual lapse of a cycle and when the world is assailed by robbers, how, O Grandfather should a king then behave.
युधिष्ठिर उवाच युगक्षयात् परिक्षीणे धर्मे लोके च भारत। दस्युभिः पीड्यमाने च कथं स्थेयं पितामह॥