And when the ascetic was seated and refreshed, the mighty-armed Yudhishthira sat by him, and looking up at the former, addressed him thus in exceedingly piteous accents: "'O holy one, summoned by cunning gamblers skilled at dice, I have been deprived of wealth and kingdom through gambling.

The simplicity of her mind and her situation, compared with my mind and my situation, seemed unbearably piteous to me.

Again that doleful droop of the lips became apparent, together with a little quiver of the voice undeniably piteous.

And in that frame moved a picture too utterly piteous for any words to describea whole country fleeing before the Huns.