Hesitated to communicate that most terrible and disagreeable intelligence to him. Your son, that foremost of kings, was then sunk deep in the ocean of grief, even like a splintered boat in the sea.
भिन्ना नौरिव ते पुत्रो मग्नः शोकमहार्णवे। वाष्पेणापिहितो दृष्ट्वा द्रोणपुत्रं रथे स्थितम्॥