Mahendra (Indra), being much please with him smilingly replied, “O Dhananjaya, when you have reached this region, what need is there of you to get weapons? You have already obtained the highest state of life. Ask for other regions of bliss you desire to obtain.” Having been thus addressed, Dhananjaya thus replied to the deity of one thousand eyes (Indra), “O lord of heaven, I do not desire to obtain regions of bliss, nor objects of enjoyment, nor the celestials state, what to speak of (other) pleasures. I do not desire to obtain the prosperity of all the celestials. Having left my brothers behind me in the forest and having been unable to avenge myself on the enemy, shall I incur the opprobrium of all the world for everlasting time?"
प्रत्युवाच महेन्द्रस्तं प्रीतात्मा प्रहसन्निव। इह प्राप्तस्य किं कार्यमस्त्रैस्तवधनंजय॥ कामान् वृणीष्व लोकांस्त्वं प्राप्तोऽसि परमां गतिम्। एवमुक्तः प्रत्युवाच सहस्राक्षंधनंजयः॥ न लोभान्न पुनः कामान्न देवत्वं पुनः सुखम्। न च सर्वामरैश्वर्यं कामये त्रिदशाधिप।॥ भ्रार्तृस्तान् विपिने त्यक्त्वा वैरमप्रतियात्य च। अकीर्तिं सर्वलोकेषु गच्छेयं शाश्वतीः समाः॥