Vaishampayana said : O king, seeing Duryodhana who is always incapable of putting up with an insult, seated with the determination of dying by starvation, the son of Subala, Shakuni, spoke thus.
वैशम्पायन उवाच प्रायोपविष्टं राजानं दुर्योधनममर्षणम्। उवाच सान्त्वयन् राजञ्छकुनिः सौबलस्तदा॥