Yudhishthira

Yudhiṣṭhira said: “Are you a foremost one among the Rudras, the Vasus, or the Maruts? I ask—who are you, divine being? This has not been done by any bird.”

Śakuni said: You have lost much wealth belonging to the Pāṇḍavas, O Yudhiṣṭhira. Declare, O son of Kuntī, what wealth remains with you that has not yet been lost.

Vaiśaṃpāyana said: Then Śakra, making all heaven and earth resound, approached Pārtha with his chariot and said to him, ‘Ascend.’

O brāhmaṇas, in former times Dharmaputra (Yudhiṣṭhira), having bathed there and having beheld Śiva, was instantly freed from the fault that had arisen from speaking an untruth.

Once, Yudhiṣṭhira summoned Kṛṣṇa, honored Him with worship, and then questioned the lotus-eyed Vāsudeva, the Lord of the world.

This is the Māheśvarī Gaṅgā, born from the very body of Maheśvara; she is proclaimed the ‘Southern Gaṅgā’, O Yudhiṣṭhira of Bhārata.

Śrī Nārada Muni continued: Thus, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ordered, Prahlāda Mahārāja performed the ritualistic ceremonies for his father. O King Yudhiṣṭhira, he was then enthroned in the kingdom of Hiraṇyakaśipu, as directed…

O King Yudhiṣṭhira, many persons with varied experience, many legal advisers, many learned scholars and many persons eligible to become presidents of learned assemblies fall down into hellish life because of not being satisfied with their…

When they saw Vidura return to the palace, all the inhabitants — Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, his younger brothers, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Sātyaki, Sañjaya, Kṛpācārya, Kuntī, Gāndhārī, Draupadī, Subhadrā, Uttarā, Kṛpī, many other wives of the Kauravas, and…

Meanwhile, King Yudhiṣṭhira, the son of Kuntī, scorched by grief for his brothers, kept reflecting again and again.

Yudhiṣṭhira said: Having heard this praise of Prayāga that you have recited, my heart has become purified by the very glorification of Prayāga. O venerable one, tell me—what kind of imperishable fruit is obtained there?

Yudhiṣṭhira said: I have heard, as declared by Brahmā in the Purāṇa—an account measured in merit—that there are thousands, hundreds, and even tens of thousands of sacred pilgrimage places (tīrthas).