Janamejaya said : O best of Brahmanas, having been deceitfully defeated at dice by the sons of Dhritarashtra with their counsellors and having been provoked by the wicked-minded ones (the Kuru princes), who thus brought about a fearful hostility by addressing them in cruel words, what did the Kurus, my grandsires do?
जनमेजय उवाच एवं द्यूतजिताः पार्थाः कोपिताश्च दुरात्मभिः। धार्तराष्ट्र: सहामात्यैनिकृत्या द्विजसत्तम॥ श्राविता: परुषा वाचः सृजद्भिर्वैरमुत्तमम्। किमकुर्वत कौरव्य मम पूर्वपितामहाः॥