Vaishampayana said Having heard this (the above intelligence), the great king Dhritarashtra, the son of Ambika, experienced, indeed, the farthest limit of grief and considered Suyodhana slain (in the battle); and highly perturbed, he fell down upon the ground, like an elephant, that had lost all his senses.
वैशम्पायन उवाच एतच्छ्रुत्वा महाराज धृतराष्ट्रोऽम्बिकासुतः। शोकस्यान्तमपश्यन् वै हतं मेने सुयोधनम्॥ विह्वलः पतितो भूमौ नष्टचेता इव द्विपः।