well-filled treasury and vast territories.  Burning with the hate they bore us, they could not obtain happiness and peace.  Beholding our aggrandisement, Duryodhana became colourless, pale and emaciated.  Suvala’s son informed king Dhritarashtra of this.  As a father full of affection for his son, Dhritarashtra tolerated the evil policy his son pursued.  Without doubt, by disregarding Vidura and the high-souled son of Ganga, and in consequence of his neglect in restraining his wicked and covetous son, entirely governed by his passions, the king has met with destruction like my poor self.  Without doubt, Suyodhana, having caused his uterine brothers to be slain and having east this couple into burning grief, hath fallen off from his blazing fame.  Burning with the hate he bore to us Duryodhana was always of a sinful heart.  What other kinsman of high birth could use such language towards kinsmen as he, from desire of battle, actually used in the presence of Krishna?  We also have, through Duryodhana’s fault, been lost for eternity, like suns burning everything around them with their own energy.  That wicked-souled wight, that embodiment of hostility, was our evil star.  Alas, for Duryodhana’s acts alone, this race of ours has been exterminated.  Having slain those whom we should never have slain, we have incurred the censures of the world.  King Dhritarashtra, having installed that wicked-souled prince of sinful deeds, that exterminator of his race, in the sovereignty, is obliged to grieve today.  Our heroic foes have been slain.  We have committed sin.  His possessions and kingdom are gone.  Having slain them, our wrath has been pacified.  But grief is stupefying me.  O Dhananjaya, a perpetrated sin is expiated by auspicious acts, by publishing it wildly, by repentance, by alms-giving, by penances, by trips to tirthas after renunciation of everything, by constant meditation on the scriptures.  Of all these, he that has practised renunciation is believed to be incapable of committing sins anew.  The Srutis declare that he that practises renunciation escapes from birth and death, and obtaining the right rood, that person of fixed soul attains to Brahma.  I shall, therefore, O Dhananjaya, go to the woods, with your leave, O scorcher of foes, disregarding all the pairs of opposites, adopting the vow of taciturnity, and walking in the way pointed out by knowledge.[8] O slayer of foes, the Srutis declare it and I myself have seen it with my eyes, that one who is wedded to this earth can never obtain every kind Of religious merit.  Desirous of obtaining the things of this earth, I have committed sin, through which, as the Srutis declare, birth and death are brought about.  Abandoning the whole of my kingdom, therefore, and the things of this earth, I shall go to the woods, escaping from the ties of the world, freed from grief, and without affection for anything.  Do thou govern this earth, on which peace has been restored, and which has been divested of all its thorns.  O best of Kuru’s race, I have no need for kingdom or for pleasure.’  Having said these words, king Yudhishthira the just stopped.  His younger brother Arjuna then addressed him in the following words.