All the people grieved upon hearing that the old king, who had become childless, had been burnt to death and that the helpless Gandhari too had shared his fate.
तं च वृद्धं तथा दग्धं हतपुत्रं नराधिपम्। अन्वशोचन्त ते सर्वे गान्धारी च तपस्विनीम्॥