O best of the Kurus, tell me how my speech may not become futile, how sin may not touch the daughter of the Panchala king and how she may not become unhappy.
मया कथं नानृतमुक्तमद्य भवेत् कुरूणामृषभ ब्रवीहि। पाञ्चालराजस्य सुतामधर्मो न चोपवर्तेत न विभ्रमेच्च॥