Puru

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Your descendants shall rule the earth with virtue and prosperity, and you shall be my true heir.

I will take your old age and give you my youth.

I will give you my kingdom and make you my successor; the lineage will be named after you.

I will take your youth for a thousand years to enjoy pleasures, and then I will return it to you and take back my old age.

I now return your youth to you and grant you the kingdom.

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Ch. 389

Lomasha Advises Yudhishthira on Dharma and Tirthas

Yudhishthira grieves that those who abandon dharma sometimes prosper. Lomasha answers him not with comfort but with a warning: prosperity without dharma is a slow poison. He traces the chain of destruction — insolence to vanity to anger to shamelessness to ruin — and tells Yudhishthira that the path to lasting prosperity runs through tirthas, austerities, and the example of the righteous kings who came before him.