Then, O monarch, your son Duryodhana, covered with stains of blood all over the body, and overwhelmed with anxious thought, from confidence, asked the grandsire Bhishma saying;
ततस्तव सुतो राजंश्चिन्तयाऽभिपरिप्लुतः। विस्रवच्छोणिताक्ताङ्गः पप्रच्छेदं पितामहम्॥