The king of virtue, Yudhisthira reflected for some time and then addressed in sorrow the citizens who were talking thus in grief.
तांस्तथावादिनः पौरान् दुःखितान् दुःखकर्शितः। उवाच मनसा ध्यात्वा धर्मराजो युधिष्ठिरः॥