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प्रजागरपर्वन् (prajAgaraparvan)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Prajāgaraparvan(ºva)] (“section relating to the sleeplessness of Dhṛtarāshṭra, ” the 59th of the minor parvans of Mhbhr.
cf. Prajāgara). § 557: Dhṛtarāshṭra, after Sañjaya had left him, requested Vidura to tell him what may be good for a person that is sleepless and burning. Vidura said that Yudhishṭhira was worthy of being the sovereign over the three worlds, while the qualities of Dhṛtarāshṭra were the very reverse of those
Dhṛtarāshṭra had no right to a share in the kingdom owing to his being blind
Vidura blamed him for having bestowed on Duryodhana, Śakuni, Karṇa, and Duḥśāsana the management of the empire. Then he explained the marks of a wise man and of a fool, quoting Bṛhaspati's answer to Indra, and alluding to the conversation between Sudhanvan and Asurendra [i.e. Prahlāda]
in relation to the son of the latter (V, 33). Continuation of Vidura's discourse (V, 34).--§ 558: Vidura said that as long as a man's good deeds are spoken of in this world, so long he is glorified in heaven, and cited the old story about the conversation between Virocana (q.v.) and Sudhanvan, both suitors for Keśinī's hand. “Entrusting the cares of thy kingdom to Duryodhana, Śakuni, the foolish Duḥśāsana, and to Karṇa, how canst thou hope for prosperity? Possessed of every virtue, the Pāṇḍavas depend on thee as their father
oh, confide thou in them as thy sons” (V, 35). --§ 559: Vidura related the old history of the discourse between Ātreya and the Sādhyas, who received instruction from Ātreya when he was wandering as a beggar (“… One should not return the slanders or reproaches of others, for the pain that is felt by him who suffers silently, consumes the slanderer
and he that endures, succeeds also in appropriating the virtues of the slanderer--the slanderer's merits become his…The very gods desire company of that man who, when abused, does not himself return the abuse nor cause others to return it, or who, when beaten, does not himself return the blow nor cause others to do it, and who wishes not the slightest injury to him that injures him…”). Then he explained what are those families that are called high (“…let none in our race serve a king as minister”) (V, 36). Vidura spoke of the seven and ten kinds of foolish men according to Manu Svāyambhuva
of the reasons why not all men attain the allotted period of life (100 years according to the Veda), etc. But Dhṛtarāshṭra could not abandon his son (V, 37--40).