Yudhishthira said : O great ascetic, tell me why that foremost of kings, Sagara abandoned his own heroic son, a son who was not fit to be abandoned?
युधिष्ठिर उवाच किमर्थं राजशार्दुल: सगरः पुत्रमात्मजम्। त्यक्तवान् दुस्त्यजं वीरं तन्मे ब्रूहि तपोधन॥