Prosperity will be thine, O Monarch, if thou behavest well towards all thy relatives.  Even relatives that are destitute of good qualities should be protected.  O bull of the Bharata race, how much more, therefore, should they be protected that are endued with every virtue and are humbly expectant of thy favours?  Favour thou the heroic sons of Pandu, O monarch, and let a few villages be assigned to them for their maintenance.  By acting thus, O king, fame will be thine in this world.  Thou art old; thou shouldst, therefore, control thy sons.  I should say what is for thy good.  Know me as one that wishes well to thee.  He that desireth his own good should never quarrel, O sire, with his relatives.  O bull of the Bharata race, happiness should ever be enjoyed with one’s relatives, and not without them, to eat with one another, to talk with one another, and to love one another, are what relatives should always do.  They should never quarrel.  In this world it is the relatives that rescue, and the relatives that ruin (relatives).  Those amongst them that are righteous rescue; while those that are unrighteous sink (their brethren).  O king, be thou, O giver of honours, righteous in thy conduct towards the sons of Pandu.  Surrounded by them, thou wouldst be unconquerable by thy foes.  If a relative shrinks in the presence of a prosperous relative, like a deer at sight of a hunter armed with arrows, then the prosperous relative hath to take upon himself all the sins of the other.  O best of men, repentance will be thine (for this thy inaction at present) when in future thou wilt hear of the death of either the Pandavas or thy sons.  O, think of all this.  When life itself is unstable, one should in the very beginning avoid that act in consequence of which one would have to indulge in regrets having entered the chamber of woe.  True it is that a person other than Bhargava, the author of the science of morality is liable to commit actions that go against morality.  It is seen, however, that a just notion of consequence is present in all persons of intelligence.  Thou art an aged scion of Kuru’s race.  If Duryodhana inflicted these wrongs on the sons of Pandu, it is thy duty, O king of men, to undo them all.  Re-instating them in their position, thou wilt, in this world, be cleansed of all thy sins and be, O king of men, an object of worship with even those that have their souls under control.  Reflecting on the well-spoken words of the wise according to their consequences, he that engageth in acts never loseth fame.  The knowledge imparted by even men of learning and skill is imperfect, for that which is sought to be inculcated is ill-understood, or, if understood, is not accomplished in practice.  That learned person who never doth an act, the consequences of which are sin and misery, always groweth (in prosperity).  The person, however, of wicked soul, who from folly pursueth his sinful course commenced before falleth into a slough of deep mire.  He that is wise should