नारद उवाच
शृणु मे विस्तरेणेमम् इतिहासं पुरातनम् ॥
भ्रातृभीः सहितः पार्थ यथावृत्तं युधिष्ठिर ॥
महासुरस्यान्ववाये हिरण्यकशिपोः पुरा ॥
निकुम्भो नाम दैत्येन्द्रस् तेजस्वी बलवान् अभूत् ॥
तस्य पुत्रौ महावीर्यौ जातौ भीमपराक्रमौ ॥
सहान्योन्येन भुञ्जाते विनान्योन्यं न गच्छतः ॥
nārada uvāca
śṛṇu me vistareṇemam itihāsaṃ purātanam ||
bhrātṛbhīḥ sahitaḥ pārtha yathāvṛttaṃ yudhiṣṭhira ||
mahāsurasyānvavāye hiraṇyakaśipoḥ purā ||
nikumbho nāma daityendras tejasvī balavān abhūt ||
tasya putrau mahāvīryau jātau bhīmaparākramau ||
sahānyonyena bhuñjāte vinānyonyaṃ na gacchataḥ ||
Narada said: "Listen in detail to this ancient tale, as it happened; in the line of the great asura Hiranyakashipu there once was a king of the daityas, Nikumbha, radiant and mighty; two sons were born to him, greatly valorous, of fearsome courage; together they took their food, and without each other they went nowhere."
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Here brotherly inseparability shows itself as an ideal -- before its coming collapse. It is telling that the brothers "went nowhere without each other": their unity was perfect, and its loss will be all the more bitter for it. Here appears the truth that the tale of the strongest friendship is placed at the beginning so that its fall will resound the harder. Thus the scripture presents a model of union; and the very height of that union prepares the lesson of the fragility of even the unbreakable.