Sighing repeatedly, he addressed Arjuna, saying,-'If, O Arjuna, we had lived like mendicants in the cities of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas, then we would not have been visited by this miserable end, for our having exterminated our kinsmen.
आविष्टो दुःखशोकाभ्यां निःश्वसंश्च पुनः पुनः। दृष्ट्वाऽर्जुनमुवाचेदं वचनं शोककर्शितः॥ युधिष्ठिर उवाच यफ्रेक्ष्यमाचरिष्याम वृष्णयन्धकपुरे वयम्। ज्ञातीन् निष्पुरुषान् कृत्वा नेमां प्राप्स्याम दुर्गतिम्॥