Hearing these words of his the powerful Vyasa thus spoke to his son stricken with grief on account of the death of his children.
तस्य तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा कृष्णद्वैपायनः प्रभुः। पुत्रशोकाभिसंतप्तं पुत्रं वचनमब्रवीत्॥