The mother said: -
1. By a king should fear never be entertained in whatever calamity he may fall; even if his heart should rend with fear he should not show that he had been struck with fear.
2. Seeing a king struck with fear, all are struck with fear- the entire kingdom, the army, the ministers and the earth ate divided into factions.
3. One party takes the side of the enemy, another abandons the king, a third again rejoices namely those who have been treated insultingly.
4. He, who is a sincere well-wisher, alone remains attached to his side like a cow which wishes to free her calf which has been tied up, but is unable to do. it.
5. They grieve for their lord who is grieving as they would grieve for friends plunged into distress. You have got many friends as true as you could wish whom you had done honours before.
6. Who feel for your lost kingdom and who desire to have on themselves a portion of your troubles. Do not give way to fear; let not your friends abandon you, as they will do if you are struck with fear.
7. Desiring to know your might, manliness and intelligence, has all this been said by me as also for supporting your failing courage, sustaining your hope and for enhancing your energy.
8. If you are confident that I have spoken the truth, then rise up, O Sanjaya, tranquilizing your mind with a view to gain victory.
9. We have got a large treasury unknown to you. I know that and nobody else and I shall place it at your command.
10. You have got many sincere well-wishers, O Sanjaya, who are heroes, competent equally to endure happiness and misery and who would not turn back from the field.
11. Such are the fitting allies of a man seeking his welfare and desirous of attaining what he wants and are also good councillors, O chastiser of your foes.
Kunti said: -
12. Hearing this her speech pregnant with sense and consisting of weighty letters and words, the despair that had overtaken him, feeble-minded as he was, immediately vanished.
The son said: -
13. I shall rescue my kingdom that is sunk in water or die in the attempt - I, who have for my guide yourself who have a great knowledge of the future.
14. I remained silent while heating your words with the desire of hearing more from you and only spoke a few words by way of reply.
15. Like one unsatiated with nectar I am not satiated with hearing your words. Having gained friends in my distress be-hold I rise up for subjugating my enemies and gaining victories over them.
Kunti said: -
16. Like a horse of good breed he became excited, being struck with these arrows in the shape of words and performed all that his mother had instructed him to do.
17. A minister should make a king, who is depressed with despair being troubled by his enemies, hear of this story than which nothing is better in increasing energy and infusing fierce might.
18. This story which is called Jaya (victory) should be heard by one who is desirous of victory; and hearing it one conquers the world speedily and vanquishes his enemies.
19. This story makes a woman bring forth a son and a heroic, son; a pregnant woman hearing it repeated many times certainly brings forth a hero.
2o. Who is a hero in knowledge, a hero in devotion, a hero in liberality, a performer of austerities blazing with Brahmic prosperity and honoured in speeches of the honest.
21. Endued with fame, endued with might, of great attributes, a great car-warrior, endued with wisdom, incapable of being vanquished, winner of victories, but himself sustaining no defeat.
22. Subjugator of the disreputable, a protector of those that practise virtues; such a son of true prowess does a Kshatriya lady bring forth.
Thus ends one hundred and thirty-sixth chapter, the instructions of Vidula to her son, in the Bhagavat-yana of the Udyog-Parva.