The kind Kuru king honoured and protected all those ladies also who had, for the battle, been deprived of their heroic husbands and sons.
याच तत्र स्त्रियः काश्चिद्धतवीरा हतात्मजाः॥ सर्वास्ताः कौरवो राजा सम्पूज्यापालयद् घृणी।