Sinful that I am, highly covetous of kingdom, and a destroyer of my reverend elders, I behaved even thus towards my preceptor in battle, casting off the garb of truth-for I said to him that Ashvatthama had been slain when, in sooth, an elephant of the name had been slain.
सुतः। कुञ्जरं चान्तरं कृत्वा मिथ्योपचरितं मया। सुभृशं राज्यलुब्धेन पापेन गुरुघातिना॥ सत्यकञ्चकमुन्मुच्य मया स गुरुराहवे। अश्वत्थामा हत इति निरुक्तः कुञ्जरे हते॥