When this discourse was finished, Nakula who was an expert swordsman thus questioned the Kuru grandfather lying on his bed of arrows.
वैशम्पायन उवाच कथान्तरमथासाद्य खड्गयुद्धविशारदः। नकुलः शरतल्पस्थमिदमाह पितामहम्॥