Hope, O chief of the Kurus, is highly difficult of being understood and equally difficult of being conquered. Seeing this last attribute of Hope, I ask, what else is so unconquerable as this?
एषा चैव कुरुश्रेष्ठ दुर्विचिन्त्या सुदुर्लभा। दुर्लभत्वाच्च पश्यामि किमन्यद् दुर्लभं ततः॥