Born now in the order of men I must act a human being. I appealed to them (the Kauravas) most piteously. But stupefied as they were and deprived of their senses, they refused to take my words.
मानुष्ये वर्तमाने तु कृपणं याचिता मया। न च ते जानसम्मोहा वचोऽगृहन्त मे हितम्॥