Do you meet Duryodhana now politely. This is Heaven, O king! There can be no enmities here! Through thus addressed by Narada, the Kuru king Yudhishthira, gifted with great intelligence, enquired about his brothers and said, If these eternal regions reserved for heroes be Duryodhana's that unrighteous and sinful wretch, that man who was the destroyer of friends and of the whole world, that man for whose sake the entire Earth was devastated with all her horses and elephants and human beings, that man for whose sake we were burnt with anger in thinking of how best we inight remedy our wrongs, I wish him to see what regions have been attained by those great heroes, my brothers of high vows, steady achievers of promises, truthful in speech, and distinguished for courage. The great Karna, the son of Kunti, in capable of being baffled in battle, Dhrishtadyumna, Satyaki, the of Dhrishtadyumna and those other Kshatriyas who met with death in the observance of Kshatriya duties where are those kings, O sons Brahmana? I do not see, O Narada, Virata and Drupada and the other great Kshatriyas headed by Dhrishtaketu, as also Shikhandin, the Panchala prince, the sons of Draupadi, and Abhimanyu, irresistible in battle. Brahmana? I do not see, O Narada, Virata and Drupada and the other great Kshatriyas headed by Dhrishtaketu, as also Shikhandin, the Panchala prince, the sons of Draupadi, and Abhimanyu, irresistible in battle.
समागच्छ यथान्यायं राज्ञा दुर्योधनेन वै। स्वर्गोऽयं नेह वैराणि भवन्ति मनुजाधिप॥ नारदेनैवमुक्तस्तु कुरुराजो युधिष्ठिरः। भ्रातन् पप्रच्छ मेधावी वाक्यमेतदुवाच ह॥ यदि दुर्योधनस्यैते वीरलोकाः सनातनाः। अधर्मज्ञस्य पापस्य पृथिवीसुहृदां दुहः॥ यत्कृते पृथिवी नष्टा सहया सनरद्विपा। वयं च मन्युना दग्धा वैरं प्रतिचिकीर्षवः॥ ये ते वीरा महात्मानो भ्रातरो मे महाव्रताः। सत्यप्रतिज्ञा लोकस्य शूरा वै सत्यवादिनः॥ तेषामिदानीं के लोका दुष्टमिच्छामि तानहम्। कर्णं चैव महात्मानं कौन्तेयं सत्यसंगरम्॥ धृष्टद्युम्नं सात्यकिं च धृष्टद्युम्नस्य चात्मजान्। ये च शस्त्रैर्वधं प्राप्ताः क्षत्रधर्मेण पार्थिवाः॥ क्व नु ते पार्थिवान् ब्रह्मन्नैतान् पश्यामि नारद। विराटद्रुपदौ चैव धृष्टकेतुमुखांश्च तान्॥ शिखण्डिनं च पाञ्चाल्यं द्रौपदेयांश्च सर्वशः। अभिमन्युं च दुर्धर्षे द्रष्टुमिच्छामि नारद॥