Janamejaya said Being from his very birth attached to evil and témpted by covetousness for the wealth of others, addicted to wicked habits and bent upon bringing about his own death, the cause of the misery of his kinsmen, the cause of heightening the grief of his friends, the cause of giving pain to his well-wishers and the cause of the increase of the joy of his enemies, for what reason did not his friends dissuade him who was wedding the wrong course and why did not the friend Krishna or the grandfather do it out of friendship or affection?
जनमेजय उवाच अनर्थं जातनिर्बन्धं परार्थं लोभमोहितम्। अनार्यकेष्वभिरतं मरणे कृतनिश्चयम्॥ ज्ञातीनां दुःखकर्तारं बन्धूनां शोकवर्धनम्। सुहृदां क्लेशदातारं द्विषतां हर्षवर्धनम्॥ कथं नैनं विमार्गस्थं वारयन्तीह बान्धवाः। सौहृदाद् वा सुहृत् स्निग्धो भगवान् वा पितामहः॥