Then clasping my hands I gratified my mother by saying thus “O mother, I shall not, being begotten by Shantanu and being a supporter of the Kuru family.
ततोऽहं प्राञ्जलिर्भूत्वा मातरं सम्प्रसादयम्। नाम्ब शान्तनुना जातः कौरवं वंशमुद्वहन्॥