Yudhishthira said Common people say that fasting is penance. Is fasting, however, really so, or is penance somethings different?
युधिष्ठिर उवाच यदिदं तप इत्याहुरुपवासं पृथग्जनाः। एतत् तपो महाराज उताहो किं तपो भवेत्॥