(I shall tell you) how this practice has been established and why it is to be regarded as old and eternal. There is no doubt that what the son of Kunti, Yudhishthira, has said is quite conformable to virtue.
यथायं विहितो धर्मो यतश्चायं सनातनः। यथा च प्राह कौन्तेय स्तथा धर्मो न संशयः॥