Yudhishthira said: O Krishna, O son of Vrishni, why were you absent? Where did you live in your sojourn and what did you do?
युधिष्ठिर उवाच असांनिध्यं कथं कृष्ण तवासीद् वृष्णिनन्दन। क्व चासीद् विप्रवासस्ते किं चाकार्षीः प्रवासतः॥