The high-souled one, thinking of the destruction of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas, as also of the previous destruction of the Kurus, concluded that the hour (for his own departure from the world) had come. He then controlled his senses (in Yoga).
स चिन्तयन्नन्धकवृष्णिनाशं कुरुक्षयं चैव महानुभावः॥ मेने ततः संक्रमणस्य कालं ततश्चकारेन्द्रियसंनिरोधम्।