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10 Human affections still touch thee. This is Heaven. Behold these celestial Rishis and Siddhas who have attained to the region of the gods!' Gifted with great intelligence, Yudhishthira answered the chief of the deities once more, saying,'O conqueror of Daityas, I venture not to dwell anywhere, separated from them! I desire to go there where my brothers have gone! I wish to go there where that foremost of women, Draupadi, of ample proportions and darkish complexion and endued with great intelligence and righteousness of conduct, has gone!