He told them, “I have been cursed by my fault. But I have heard that there are no regions hereafter for those who are childless." Therefore, he asked Kunti to raise offspring for him. Kunti said, “Let it be so." By Dharma she had Yudhishthira, by Maruta Bhima and by Indra Arjuna.
स्वचाप्लयादिदं प्राप्तवानहं शृणोमि च शृणोमि च नानपत्स्य लोकासन्तीति। सा त्वं मदर्थे पुत्रानुत्पादयेति कुन्तीमुवाच। सा तथोक्ता पुत्रानुत्पादयामासा धर्माद् युधिष्ठिरं मारुताद् भीमसेनं शक्रादर्जुनमिति॥