Mudgalapurana 3.41: yudhiṣṭhirakṛṣṇasamāgamo nāmaikacatvāriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ

Obeisance to the glorious Gaṇeśa!

Mudgala said: / Setting aside Dhṛtarāṣṭra, who was blind from birth, all the Brahmins made / Pāṇḍu king; he conquered the earth.

Devoted to him, that Pāṇḍu, conqueror of enemies' cities, / invested his elder [brother] Dhṛtarāṣṭra with the royal insignia, such as the umbrella.

The devoted wife Gāndhārī became the wife of Dhṛtarāṣṭra; / Kuntī and Mādrī were the two wives of Pāṇḍu.

Accompanied by his two wives, King Pāṇḍu went to the forest; / there he constantly sported with joy for the sake of recreation.

The king shot with an arrow a sage in the form of a deer; / engaged with a female deer, about to die, he cursed the king:

"You have killed me while I was united with my wife, O lowest of kings; / therefore, when you unite with your wife for sexual intercourse,

then your death will take place instantly by my word!" / Having said this, the best of the twice-born cast off his body.

Hearing the terrible curse, Pāṇḍu abandoned his kingdom and stayed in the forest / accompanied by his two wives, eating roots, fruits, and the like.

Then from Kuntī, through Dharma, was born the best among upholders of dharma, / the highly fortunate Yudhiṣṭhira, by virtue of the power of a mantra.

And from Vāyu was born Bhīmasena, endowed with strength; / from Indra was born Arjuna to Kuntī, devoted to the science of archery.

Likewise, Nakula and the valiant Sahadeva were born of the Aśvins / to Mādrī, devoted to dharma, O Dakṣa, endowed with beauty and charm.

And to Gāndhārī a full hundred sons of boundless splendor were born, / [and] a daughter, O Dakṣa, endowed with beauty and charm.

Under the delusion of the curse, Pāṇḍu united with Mādrī and died; / she indeed followed [him in death]; Kuntī protected the sons.

She was brought to Hastināpura by the noble Brahmins; / honored by Bhīṣma and the others along with her sons, Kuntī dwelt [there].

Then after a long time had passed, that Duryodhana, accompanied by his younger brothers, / filled with hatred, tormented the Pāṇḍavas with poison and other means.

Once, in order to burn them, the Pāṇḍavas along with their mother / were placed in a house of lac; they were saved then by [their past] karma.

With these and other various attitudes, that evil-minded one, full of hatred, / tormented those heroes; then Bhīṣma spoke:

"Taking half the kingdom, let the Pāṇḍavas depart from the city." / Then, urged by Dhṛtarāṣṭra, they went to Indraprastha.

Having achieved the conquest of the quarters there, they became endowed with prosperity; / the highly fortunate Kṛṣṇa took their side.

Having performed the Rājasūya sacrifice, the Pāṇḍavas then shone forth, / at which King Duryodhana became distressed in his mind.

Through Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the evil-minded one brought the Pāṇḍavas; / having defeated those illustrious ones at dice, he was overjoyed.

He who loved reckless acts placed the Pāṇḍavas in the forests / for twelve years, and likewise one year in disguise.

Abandoning their kingdom and everything else, the Pāṇḍavas went to the forest. / There Kṛṣṇa came to them, accompanied by Balabhadra.

He consoled the Pāṇḍavas, and became filled with wrath: / "I shall slay the utterly wicked Duryodhana, O Yudhiṣṭhira!

Rule the kingdom given by me, entirely freed of enemies!" / To Kṛṣṇa, who was thus speaking, Yudhiṣṭhira then said:

"I shall rule the kingdom in accordance with dharma, O Janārdana. / (

Section 3, Chapter 42, Page 92) I do not desire a kingdom connected with unrighteousness, which produces sin.

Therefore, O mighty-armed one, restrain your anger at my word; / tell me a means, endowed with dharma, that brings about the attainment of the kingdom."

Then Kṛṣṇa himself, freed from anger there, spoke / to Yudhiṣṭhira who was accompanied by Draupadī and his brothers.

Om tat sat. Thus, in the glorious, ultimate Purāṇopaniṣad, the glorious Maudgala Mahāpurāṇa, in the third section, in the Deeds of Mahodara, the forty-first chapter, named 'The Meeting of Yudhiṣṭhira and Kṛṣṇa'.