O son of Pandu, this mystery of virtue I will now explain to you as it was explained by Bhishma, by the pious Yudhishthira, by Vidura or the so-called Kshatri and by Kunti of great renown. I will tell it you in all its detail; listen to it, O Dhananjaya.
इदं धर्मरहस्यं च तव वक्ष्यामि पाण्डव। यद् ब्रूयात् तव भीष्मो हि पाण्डवो वा युधिष्ठिरः॥२ विदुरो वा यथा क्षत्ता कुन्ती वापि यशस्विनी। तत् ते वक्ष्यामि तत्त्वेन निबोधैतद् धनंजय॥