Yudhishthira said-I wish, O foremost of Bharata's race, to hear fully the source from which sin proceeds and the basis upon which it depends.
युधिष्ठिर उवाच पापस्य यदधिष्ठानं यतः पापं प्रवर्तते। एतदिच्छाम्यहं श्रोतुं तत्त्वेन भरतर्षभ॥