Having thought for a inoment, king Yudhishthira just, dispirited and plunged in anxiety and sorrow, said to his mother, saying,
मुहूर्तमिव तु ध्यात्वा धर्मराजो युधिष्ठिरः। उवाच मातरं दीनश्चिन्ताशोकपरायणः॥