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THE MAHABHARATA
 
कर्णोऽहं भीमसेनोऽहमित्येवं ते विचुकुशुः ॥
"I am Karna. " " I am Bhima." So
did they cry.
 
युधिष्टिर:-
'किन्तु तत्कलुषं कर्म कृतमेभिर्महात्मभिः ।
य इमे पापगन्धेऽस्मिन् देशे सन्ति सुदारुणे ॥'
Yudhisthira
 
"What is that impure act done by
these high-souled persons that they are in
this stinking and very frightful place ?"
 
देवांश्च गईयामास धर्म चैध युधिष्ठिरः ।
स तीव्रशोकसन्तप्तो देवदूतमुवाच ह ॥
 
Yudhisthira denounced the gods and also
Dharma. Burning with poignant grief, he
addressed the messenger of the gods:
 
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न ह्यहं तत्र यास्यामि स्थितोऽस्मीति निवेद्यताम् ।
मत्संश्रयादिमे दूनाः सुखिनो भ्रातरो हि मे ॥ '
 
"Inform (the gods) that I am not going
there (to heaven); I am staying (here, in
hell) ; for, by my association, these brothers
of mine who are afflicted becothe happy.".