Indubitably, O foremost of the twice-born ones, you have taken us to be men doomed to be slaughtered for your sake, in as much as today getting Yudhishthira near you, you did not seize him.
नूनं वयं वध्यपक्षे भवतो द्विजसत्तम। तथा हि नाग्रहीः प्राप्तं समीपेऽद्य युधिष्ठिरम्॥