“The wives of those for whom I have been reduced to such a plight shall, on the fourteenth year hence, deprived of their husbands, sons, relatives and dear ones smeared all over with blood, all in their seasons, and with hair dishevelled enter Hastinapur having offered oblations of water to the manes of their dead husbands.
यत्कृतेऽहमिदं प्राप्ता तेषां वर्षे चतुर्दशे। हतपत्यो हतसुता हतबन्धुजनप्रियाः॥ बहुशोणितदिग्धाङ्गयो मुक्तकेशयो रजस्वलः। एवं कृतोदका भार्याः प्रवेक्ष्यन्ति गजाह्वयम्॥