This sinful, shameless, and covetous wretch, surrounded by sinful counsellors and ever malignant of the advice of wise friends, encountered his death even then when he refused, though repeatedly urged to the contrary by Vidura, Drona, Kripa and Sanjaya, to give to the sons of Pandu their paternal share in the kingdom which thcy had begged of him.
तदैवैष हतः पापो यदैव निरपत्रपः॥ लुब्धः पापसहायश्च सुहृदां शासनातिगः। बहुशो विदुरद्रोणकृपगाङ्गेयसंजयैः॥ पाण्डुभ्यः प्रार्थ्यमानोऽपि पित्र्यमंशं न दत्तवान्।