These ladies, the hair on whose heads shows not the parted line, and who are clad in white, are the widows of the killed sons of Dhritarashtra. They are the daughters-in-law of this old king, the wives of his hundred sons, now deprived of both their husbands and children who have been killed by heroic enemies.
एतास्तु सीमन्तशिरोरुहायाः शुल्कोत्तरीया नरराजपल्यः। राज्ञोऽस्य वृद्धस्य परं शताख्या: स्नुषा नृवीरा हतपुत्रनाथाः॥