After the completion of the Shraddha Vyasa, seeing all the people plunged in grief, spoke to his bereaved and greatly afflicted mother (Satyavati) thus,
श्राद्धावसाने तु तदा दृष्ट्वा तं दुःखितं जनम्। सम्मूढां दुःखशोका” व्यासो मातरमब्रवीत्॥