Drupada said : O great Rishi, it is only when I have not heard from you all this that I intended to act in the way I have already told you. I am now incapable of acting against what has been ordained by the celestials. I therefore desire to act as you have said.
दुपद उवाच अश्रुत्वैवं वचनं ते महर्षे मया पूर्वं यतितं संविधातुम्। न वै शक्यं विहिस्यापयानं तदेवेदमुपपन्नं विधानम्॥