“The king was blessed in everyway; it is no use mourning for him. Hearing and realizing this, sorrow no more, and reverently obey the king’s command. The king has bestowed the kingship on you; it behoves you, therefore, to redeem the words of your father who abandoned RŒma for the sake of his word and quitted his body in his anguish of separation from RŒma. The king did not love his own life as he did his word; therefore, dear son, redeem your father’s word. Reverently obey the king’s command; this will do you good in everyway. ParaÜurŒma executed the command of his father and killed his own mother: the whole world will bear testimony to this fact. YayŒti’s son (Puru)* DevayŒn¶ having one complained to her father of the king’s infidelity, ÝukrŒcŒrya pronounced on him a curse as a result of which he became old and infirm before time. Having been propitiated by him through supplication and entreaty, however, the sage allowed the king to borrow the youth of another in exchange for his own old age should anyone be willing to part with it. The king thereupon sought the help of his sons, but the first exchanged his own youth for the old age of his father and incurred no sin or blame because he did so in obedience to his father’s command.” (1—4)