Vaishampayana said "Hearing these words of the energetic Vyasa and reflecting upon them for a little while, Dhritarashtra said,-'O best of Rishis, I am greatly stricken with grief. I am repeatedly losing consciousness and I am unable to bear up my own self.
वैशम्पायन उवाच तच्छ्रुत्वा तस्य वचनं व्यासस्यामिततेजसः। मुहूर्तं समनुध्यायन् धृतराष्ट्रोऽभ्यभाषत।॥ महता शोकजालेन प्रणुन्नोऽस्मि द्विजोत्तम। नात्मानमवबुध्यामि मुह्यमानो मुहुर्मुहुः॥