Conciliating all the Pandavas ordered them to rescue us. Thereupon those foremost of men, the Pandavas, overtaking them (the Gandharvas), asked them in sweet words to release us, although they were able to rescue us by force. But when they refused to release us in sweet words.
प्रसाद्य पाण्डवान् सर्वानाज्ञापयत मोक्षणे। अथागम्य तमुद्देशं पाण्डवाः पुरुषर्षभाः॥ सान्त्वपूर्वमयाचन्त शक्ताः सन्तो महारथाः। यदा चास्मान् न मुमुचुर्गन्धर्वाः सान्त्विता अपि॥