The king will commence to practice the most austere and unbearable of penances!' Hearing these words, that king of battle, the mighty-armed Shadeva with eyes bathed in tears, addressed Yudhishthira, saying, 'O chief of Bharata race, I dare not leave my mother.
अविषह्यं च राजा हि तीन चारप्स्यते तपः। एतच्छ्रुत्वा महाबाहुः सहदेवो युधां पतिः॥ युधिष्ठिरमुवाचेदं बाष्पव्याकुललोचनः। नोत्सहेऽहं परित्यक्तुं मातरं भरतर्षभ॥