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SVARGAROHANA PARVA
 
457
 
युधिष्ठिरः-

' कियदध्वानमस्माभिर्गन्तव्यमिममीदृशम् ॥'
 

Yudhisthira -
 

"How much of this way have we thus

got to go ?"
 

 
देवदूतोऽब्रवीच्चैनम् ' एतावद्गमनं तव' ॥
 
him :
 

The messenger of the gods replied to

him :
" Thus far is your progress."

 
स सन्निवृत्तः शुभाश्राव दीना वाचस्समन्ततः ।

"भो भो धर्मज राजर्षे तिष्ठ तावन्मुहूर्तकम् ।

त्वयि तिष्ठति कौरव्य यातनाऽस्मान्न बाधते ॥'
 

Returning, Yudhisthira heard words of

distress from all sides : "Oh royal saint!

son of Dharma! stop for a while ; when

you, scion of Kuru, stand (before us), the

torture does not afflict us."
 

 
अहो कृच्छ्रमिति प्राह तस्थौ स च युधिष्ठिरः।

उवाच 'के भवन्तो वै किमर्थमिह तिष्ठथ ॥
 

' Alas ! What torture !" said Yudhisthira

and stopped. He said (then ) : " Who

are you? Why are you here?"