Sanjaya continued Having addressed thus the senseless king, and who was lying with broken thighs, Ashvatthaman once more looked at him and said: 'If, O Duryodhana, you have any vitality in you still, listen to these agrecable words. On the side of the Pandavas, only seven are alive, and among the Dhritarashtras, only we three survive.
संजय उवाच इत्येवमुक्तवा राजानं भग्नसक्थमचेतनम्। अश्वत्थामा समुद्रीक्ष्य पुनर्वचनमब्रवीत्॥ दुर्योधन जीवसि त्वं वाक्यं क्षोत्रमुखं शृणु। सप्त पाण्डवतः शेषा धार्तराष्ट्रास्त्रयो वयम्॥