O virtuous one, getting over all these difficulties you will govern the earth by the code of laws practised by the Kshatriyas.” Then the Raja Yudhishthira, having bowed to these words of the ascetics,
क्षत्रधर्मेणधर्मज्ञ तीर्खा गां पालयिष्यसि। तत् तु राजा वचस्तेषां प्रतिगृह्य तपस्विनाम्॥