When, O Kaurava king, I behold that Bhishma, capable of achieving the most difficult exploits and unslayable even by the celestials together with Vasava in battle, was slain in your very sight and in that of your younger brother Dusasana, I thought, O king, that the earth no longer belonged to you.
यत्रापश्यं हतं भीष्मं पश्यतस्तेऽनुजस्य वै। दुःशासनस्य कौरव्य कुर्वाणं कर्म दुष्करम्॥ अवध्यकल्पं संग्रामे देवैरपि सवासवैः। न ते वसुन्धरास्तीति तदाहं चिन्तये नृप॥