O king, these lamentations of yours are as useless as the construction of embankments when the waters have receeded from a flooded field. O foremost of the Bharatas, do not indulge in grief.
गतोदके सेतुबन्धो याक् तागयं तव। विलापो निष्फलो राजन् मा शुचो भरतर्षभ॥