With paralysed limbs, sighing long, looking helpless, uttering-woe and alas and highly oppressed with with sorrow, the great king Dhritarashtra, the son of Ambika, became to weep most bitterly.
विस्त्रस्ताङ्ग श्वसन् दीनो हाहेत्युकत्वा सुदुःखित। विललाप महाराज धृतराष्ट्रोऽम्बिकासुतः॥