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She said to me: 'O queen, I am a Yaksha, daughter of Manibhadra, and wife of Kâmapâla, the son of your husband's late minister, Dharmapâla; by command of Kuvera, I have brought this my child to you, that he may enter the service of your son, who is destined to become a mighty monarch. "I was too much astonished to ask her any question, and she, having laid down the child near me, disappeared."
And what is the best of all kinds of happiness? Yudhishthira answered, "The best of all laudable things is skill; the best of all possessions is knowledge: the best of all gains is health: and contentment is the best of all kinds of happiness. The Yaksha asked, 'What is the highest duty in the world? What is that virtue which always beareth fruit?
Do thou ask me! The Yaksha then said, 'What is it that maketh the Sun rise? Who keeps him company? Who causeth him to set? And in whom is he established? Yudhishthira answered, 'Brahma maketh the Sun rise; the gods keep him company; Dharma causeth him to set; and he is established in truth. The Yaksha asked, 'By what doth one become learned? By what doth he attain what is very great?
And what is charity? Yudhishthira answered, 'Steadiness consists in one's staying in one's own religion, and true patience consists in the subjugation of the senses. A true bath consists in washing the mind clean of all impurities, and charity consists in protecting all creatures. The Yaksha asked, 'What man should be regarded as learned, and who should be called an atheist?
And what is more numerous than grass? Yudhishthira answered, 'The mother is weightier than the earth; the father is higher than the heaven; the mind is fleeter than the wind; and our thoughts are more numerous than grass. The Yaksha asked, 'What is that which doth not close its eyes while asleep; What is that which doth not move after birth? What is that which is without heart?
No other person among the mobile and immobile creatures of the three worlds possesseth or will ever possess such knowledge of weapons. And there is none even amongst the gods, or Asuras, or men, or Rakshasas, or Gandharvas, or Yaksha chiefs, or Kinnaras, or mighty Uragas, who is like him.
Indeed, the Yaksha said, 'O son of a king, for thee I have been cursed by Vaisravana. Go now, and live happily amongst men as thou choosest. Thy coming here and the arrival of Pulastya's son were, I think, both ordained from beforehand. All this was incapable of being prevented!"
Desire is due to objects of possession, and envy is nothing else than grief of heart. The Yaksha asked, 'What is pride, and what is hypocrisy? What is the grace of the gods, and what is wickedness? Yudhishthira answered, 'Stolid ignorance is pride. The setting up of a religious standard is hypocrisy.
And what also is his chief refuge? Yudhishthira answered, 'The son is a man's soul: the wife is the friend bestowed on man by the gods; the clouds are his chief support; and gift is his chief refuge. The Yaksha asked, 'What is the best of all laudable things? What is the most valuable of all his possessions? What is the best of all gains?
As long as that report lasteth, so long is a person to whom the agreeable and the disagreeable, weal and woe, the past and the future, are the same, is said to possess every kind of wealth. The Yaksha said, 'Thou hast, O king truly answered who is a man, and what man possesseth every kind of wealth.
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