Bowing down to Kripa and walking round him, O king, Yudhishthira, accomplished in speech, thus spoke to that greatly brave warrior.
सोऽभिवाद्य कृपं राजा कृत्वा चापि प्रदक्षिणम्। उवाच दुर्धर्षतमं वाक्यं वाक्यविदां वरः॥