Alas, what greater sorrow could be mine than that I should thus be offered as tribute to Yudhishthira in the very sight of our women, myself in chains and in great misery and also under the complete control of our enemies!
स्त्रीसमक्षमहं दीनो बद्धः शत्रुवशं गतः॥ युधिष्ठिरस्योपहृतः किं नु दुःखमतः परम्।