The high-souled hero, the foremost of the Kurus, felt for them as a father feels for his sons; and they too felt for the Kuru chief as sons feel for their father.
पितेव पुत्रेषु स तेषु भावं चक्रे कुरूणामृषभो महात्मा। ते चापि तस्मिन् भरतप्रवर्दै तदा बभूवुः पितरीव पुत्राः॥