But Drupada, laughing in derision, cast me off as if I were a vulgar fellow; and he said, “O Brahmana, your intelligence is hardly of high order. As coming to me on a sudden you say are my friend. O dull-minded man, great kings can never be friends with such luckless and indigent fellow like you.
स मां निराकारमिव प्रहसन्निदमब्रवीत्। अकृतेयं तव प्रज्ञा ब्रह्मन् नातिसमञ्जसा॥ यदात्थ मां त्वं प्रसभं सखा तेऽहमिति द्विज। संगतानीह जीर्यन्ति कालेन परिजीर्यतः॥