Then that one of great devotion having welcomed Partha, the best of the Kurus, who had taken his seat with his brothers, inquired after his welfare saying,
कुरूणामृषभं पार्थं पूजयित्वा महातपाः। सह भ्रातृभिरासीनं पर्यपृच्छदनामयम्॥