O Kurus, take to your heart this high precept that I declare to you. If virtue is persecuted (in · an assembly,) the whole assembly becomes polluted. If he (Yudhisthira) had staked her before he was himself won, he would have certainly been regarded as her master.
इमं धर्मं कुरवो जानताशु ध्वस्ते धर्मे परिषत् सम्प्रदुष्येत्। दीशोऽभविष्यदपराजितात्मा॥