Seeing the vehicle thus reduced to ashes, O Iord, the sons of Pandu filled with wonder, and Arjuna, O king, having saluted Krishna and bowed un.o him, said these words, with joined hands, 'O Govinda, O divine one, why has this car been consumed by fire?
तं तथा भस्मभूतं तु दृष्ट्वा पाण्डुसुताः प्रभो। अभवन् विस्मिता राजन्नर्जुनश्चेदमब्रवीत्॥ कृताञ्जलिः सप्रणयं प्रणिपत्याभिवाद्य ह। गोविन्द कस्माद् भगवन् रथोदग्धोऽयमग्निना॥