O Keshava, is there a more sorrowful sight for me to see then that presented by those ladies of fair forms who are put into such a miserable plight? I must, forsooth, have perpetrated great sins in my previous existence, since I am beholding, O Keshava, my sons and grandsons and brothers all killed by foes.' While thus bewailing Gandhari saw the dead body of her son Duryodhana.
इतो दुःखतरं किं नु केशव प्रतिभाति मे। यदिमाः कुर्वते सर्वा रवमुच्चावचं स्त्रियः॥ नूनमाचरितं पापं मया पूर्वेषु जन्मसु। या पश्यामि हतान् पुत्रान् पौत्रान् भ्रातृ॑श्च माधव॥ एवमार्ता विलपती समाभाष्य जनार्दनम्। गान्धारी पुत्रशोकार्ता ददर्श निहतं सुतम्॥