Having heard his words, Dushasana in great misery and grief said to his eldest brother with joined hands, with bent down head and with voice choked in tears, “Relent.” Saying this, he fell down on the earth in the greatest possible misery. In sorrow and grief that foremost of men shed tears on the feet of his brother and thus spoke to him, “This can never be done.
तस्य तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा दीनो दुःशासनोऽब्रवीत्। अश्रुकण्ठः सुदुःखार्तः प्राञ्जलिः प्रणिपत्य च॥ सगद्गदमिदं वाक्यं भ्रातरं ज्येष्ठमात्मनः। प्रसीदेत्यपतद् भूमौ दूयमानेन चेतसा॥ दुःखितः पादयोस्तस्य नेत्रजं जलमुत्सृजन्। उक्तवांश्च नरव्याघ्रो नैतदेवं भविष्यति॥