With one poor passion at the door of bliss?

Stay’st thou for this, who didst not stay for them—

Draupadi, Bhima?”

But the king yet spake:

“’Tis known that none can hurt or help the dead.

They, the delightful ones, who sank and died,

Following my footsteps, could not live again

Though I had turned, therefore I did not turn;

But could help profit, I had turned to help.

There be four sins, O Sakra, grievous sins: