Being thus accosted by me, if he had listened to my words, the well-being and the virtue of the Kurus, O enhancer of the Kuru race, would have been secured.
एवमुक्तो यदि मया गृहणीयाद् वचनं मम। अनामयं स्याद्धर्मश्च कुरूणां कुरुवर्धन॥