SECTION 25
(Digvijaya Parva)
Vaisampayana said,--Arjuna, having obtained
that best of bows and that couple of inexhaustible quivers and that car and
flag-staff, as also that assembly-house, addressing Yudhisthira said,--Bow,
weapons, great energy, allies, territory, fame, army-those, O king, difficult
of acquisition however desirable, have all been obtained by me. I think,
therefore, that what should now be done is for the swelling up of our treasury.
I desire, to make the kings of the earth pay tributes to us. I desire to set
out, in an auspicious moment of a holy day of the moon under a favourable
constellation for the conquest of the direction North."
Vaisampayana continued,--"King
Yudhisthira, hearing these words of Dhananjaya, replied unto him in a grave and
collected tone, saying,--O, set thou out, having made holy Brahmanas utter benedictions
on thee, to plunge thy enemies in sorrow and to fill thy friend with joy.
Victory, will surely be thine, and thou wilt surely obtain thy desires
fulfilled.
"Thus addressed, Arjuna, surrounded by a
large host, set out in that car he had obtained from Agni. And Bhimasena also,
the twins, dismissed with affection by Yudhishthira set out, each at the head
of a large army. And Arjuna, then brought under subjugation that direction the
North which. And Bhimasena overcome by force the East and Sahadeva the South,
and Nakula, acquainted with all the weapons, conquered the West. Thus while his
brothers were so employed, the exalted king Yudishthira stayed within
Khandavaprastha in the enjoyment of great affluence in the midst of friends and
relatives."
"Bhagadatta, hearing this, said,--'O
thou who hast Kunti for thy mother, as thou art to me, so is Yudhishthira also.
I shall do all this. Tell me, what else I may do for thee."
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