While, O Kuru king, the chief of the celestials was saying so to Yudhishthira, the god of Righteousness, in his embodied form, then addressed his own son and said, O king, I am highly pleased, O you of great wisdom, with you, O son, by your devotion to me by your truthfulness of speech, and forgiveness, and self-control.
एवं ब्रुवति देवेन्द्रे कौरवेन्द्रे युधिष्ठिरम्। धर्मो विग्रहवान् साक्षादुवाच सुतमात्मनः॥ भो भो राजन् महाप्राज्ञ प्रीतोऽस्मि तव पुत्रका मद्भक्त्या सत्यवाक्यैश्च क्षमया च दमेन च॥