Seeing that dreadful field of battle filled on all sides with the cries of those grief-stricken ladies, the daughter of Subala, acquainted with all forms of duty, addressed the louts-eyed, Keshava that foremost of all men. Beholding that universal destruction of the Kurus and filled with grief at the sight, she said,-'Look, O lotus-eyed Mahadeva, at these daughters-inlaw of mine! Deprived of their husbands they are with dishevelled hair, crying piteously like a flight of she-ospreys.
दुःखोपहतचित्ताभिः समन्तादनुनादितम्। दृष्ट्वाऽऽयोधनमत्युग्रं धर्मज्ञा सुबलात्मजा॥ ततः सा पुण्डरीकाक्षमामन्व्य पुरुषोत्तमम्। कुरूणां वैशसं दृष्ट्वा इदं वचनमब्रवीत्॥ पश्यैताः पुण्डरीकाक्ष स्नुषा मे निहतेश्वराः। प्रकीर्णकेशा: क्रोशन्ती: कुररीरिव माधव॥