Yudhishthira said 'Persons conversant with duty and morality lecture that royal duties are the highest science of duty. I also regard the burden of those duties as being highly heavy. Do you, therefore, O king, describe those duties.
युधिष्ठिर उवाच राज्ञां वै परमो धर्म इति धर्मविदो विदुः। महान्तमेतं भारं च मन्ये तद् ब्रूहि पार्थिव॥