The best of ascetics (Vyasa) saw that mass of flesh and asked the daughter of Subala, “What have you done?” And she (Gandhari) told her real feeling to the great Rishi.
तां स मांसमयीं पेशीं ददर्श जपतां वरः। ततोऽब्रवीत् सौबलेयीं किमिदं ते चिकीर्षितम्॥ सा चात्मनो मतं सत्यं शशंस परमर्षये।