Having saluted Narayana and Nara the best of male beings, as also Sarasvati the God of Learning, let us cry success.

Janamejaya said-Having attained to Heaven, what regions were respectively attained by my grandsires of old, viz., the Pandavas, and the sons of Dhritarashtra?

I wish to hear this. I think that you know everything, having been taught by the great Rishi Vyasa of wonderful feats.

Vaishampayana said Listen now to what your grandsires, Yudhishthira and others, did after having attained to Heaven, that place of the deities.

Arrived at Heaven, King Yudhishthira the just, saw Duryodhana gifted with prosperity and seated on an excellent seat.

He was effulgent like the sun and wore all the signs of heroic glory. And he was in the company of of many celestials of blazing effulgence and of Saddhyas of righteous deeds.

Yudhishthira, seeing Duryodhana and his prosperity became suddenly overpowered with anger and turned back from the sight.

He loudly addressed his companions, saying, I do not wish to share regions of bliss with Duryodhana who was stained by cupidity and possessed of little foresight.

It was for him that friends, kinsmen, over the whole Earth destroyed by is were whom he had greatly afflicted in the deep forest.

It was for him that the virtuous princess of Panchala, Draupadi of faultless features, our wife, was dragged into the midst of the countries before all our elders.

You gods, I have no wish to even see Suyodhana. I wish to go there where my brothers are.

Narada, smiling told him, It should not be so. O king of kings In heaven, all enmities cease.

O mighty-armed Yudhishthira, do not say so about king Duryodhana. Hear my words.

Here is king Duryodhana. He is adored with the celestials by these righteous men and those foremost of kings, who are now jeweilers of Heaven.

By causing his body to be poured as a libation on the fire of battle, he has obtained the end which consists in attainment of the region for heroes. You and your brothers, who were veritable gods on Earth, were always persecuted by this one.

Yet through his observance of Kshatriya practices he has acquired this region. This king was not terrified in a dreadful situation.

O son, you should not bear in mind the woes inflicted on you on account of the match al dice. You should not remember the sufferings of Draupadi.

You should not remember the other miseries which you suffered for the deeds of your kinsinen-the miseries, viz., that were due to battle or to other situations.

Do you meet Duryodhana now politely. This is Heaven, O king! There can be no enmities here! Through thus addressed by Narada, the Kuru king Yudhishthira, gifted with great intelligence, enquired about his brothers and said, If these eternal regions reserved for heroes be Duryodhana's that unrighteous and sinful wretch, that man who was the destroyer of friends and of the whole world, that man for whose sake the entire Earth was devastated with all her horses and elephants and human beings, that man for whose sake we were burnt with anger in thinking of how best we inight remedy our wrongs, I wish him to see what regions have been attained by those great heroes, my brothers of high vows, steady achievers of promises, truthful in speech, and distinguished for courage. The great Karna, the son of Kunti, in capable of being baffled in battle, Dhrishtadyumna, Satyaki, the of Dhrishtadyumna and those other Kshatriyas who met with death in the observance of Kshatriya duties where are those kings, O sons Brahmana? I do not see, O Narada, Virata and Drupada and the other great Kshatriyas headed by Dhrishtaketu, as also Shikhandin, the Panchala prince, the sons of Draupadi, and Abhimanyu, irresistible in battle. Brahmana? I do not see, O Narada, Virata and Drupada and the other great Kshatriyas headed by Dhrishtaketu, as also Shikhandin, the Panchala prince, the sons of Draupadi, and Abhimanyu, irresistible in battle.