Verse 29

²⁵Hearing this, Yudhisthira asked him, as he lay in that cage of arrows, about the dharmas in their several kinds, while the sages listened. ²⁶He set out those laid down according to a person's own nature, class by class and stage by stage, handed down with marks of both kinds, according to detachment or to attachment; ²⁷the duties of giving, the duties of kings, the duties that lead to release, each in its own division; the duties of women, and the duties owed to the Bhagavan, both in brief and at length. ²⁸And, sage, the knower of what is true described dharma, wealth, desire and release, together with the means to each, as they are, throughout many tales and histories.

²⁹While he was thus setting forth dharma, that season came round which a yogin who dies at will desires: the sun's northward turning.