If that has become possible, nothing could be better, nothing more beneficial and nothing more conductive to fame and virtue than that incident. Having said this, the priest became silent. The king (Yudhishthira) seeing him thus sitting with humility said, “Let water to wash his fact and the Arghya be offered to this Brahmana. He is king Drupada's priest and therefore he is worthy of our respect. We should worship him with more than ordinary reverence.”
कृतं हि तत्स्यात् सत्कृतं ममेदं यशश्च पुण्यं च हितं तदेतत्। अथोक्तवाक्यं हि पुरोहितं स्थितं ततो विनीतं समुदीक्ष्य राजा॥ समीपतो भीममिदं शशास प्रदीयतां पाद्यमर्थ्य तथास्मै। मान्यः पुरोधा द्रुपदस्य राज्ञः तस्मै प्रयोज्याभ्यधिका हि पूजा॥