Your two mothers also, exceedingly emaciated, could not move. The king, seeing the fire approach him from all sides, addressed the Suta Sanjaya, that foremost of skillful charioteers, saying, 'Go, O Sanjaya, to such a place where the fire may not burn you.
असमर्योऽपसरणे सुकृशे मातरौ च ते। ततः स नृपतिर्दृष्ट्वा वह्निमायान्तमन्तिकात्॥ इदमाह ततः सूतं संजयं जयतां वरः। गच्छ संजय यत्राग्निर्न त्वां दहति कर्हिचित्॥