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THE MAHABHARATA
 
कर्णोऽहं भीमसेनोऽहमित्येवं ते विचुकुक्रुशुः ॥

"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 गर्हयामास धर्मं चै 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 becothme happy.".