Being afraid of him, the foremost of person Yudhishthira, the royal impersonation of justice, could not enjoy sleep, while exiled in the forest, for a period of thirteen years. Relaying upon the prowess of that high-souled hero of great energy, my son forcibly dragged the wife of the Pandavas to the assembly-hall. There in the midst of that assembly, that one (Karna) called the Princess of Panchala, in the very sight of the Pandavas and also in the presence of all the Kuru's, the wife of slaves. 'O Krishna (Panchali), all your husbands are no more; and if they really exist, they are more like the sesamum seeds without the Kernel. So do you, O beautiful lady, choose another husband.' That person of the Suta race had made, anger, Krishna listen to these harsh expressions in the midst of the assembly. How was he slain by the enemies?
यस्य भीतो रणे निद्रां धर्मराजो युधिष्ठिरः॥ त्रयोदश समा नित्यं नाभजत् पुरुषर्षभः। यस्य वीर्यवतो वीर्यमुपाश्रित्य महात्मनः॥ मम पुत्रः सभां भार्या पाण्डूनां नीतवान् बलात्। तत्रापि त सभामध्ये पाण्डवानां च पश्यताम्॥ दासभार्येति पाञ्चलीमब्रवीत् कुरुसंनिधौ। न सन्ति पतयः कृष्णे सर्वे षण्ढतिलैः समाः॥ उपतिष्ठस्व भर्तारमन्यं वा वरवर्णिनि। इत्येवं यः पुरा वाचो रूक्षाश्चाश्रवयन् रुषा॥ सभायां सूतजः कृष्णं स कथं निहतः परैः।