When king Yudhishthira, with Bhima and Arjuna by him, resembled the king of the deities himself in prosperity and prowess, why then did that mungoose depreciate that great Horse-Sacrifice of the great monarch.
यदा युधिष्ठिरो राजा भीमार्जुन पुरःसरः। सदृशो देवराजेन समृद्ध्या विक्रमेण च॥ अथ कस्मात् स नकुलो गर्हयामास तं क्रतुम्। अश्वमेधं महायज्ञं राज्ञस्तस्य महात्मनः॥