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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 3]
nanda-yāmāsa suhṛdaḥ sādhūnāṁ vartma darśayan
evam—thus; sañcintya—thinking within Himself; bhagavān—the Personality of Godhead; sva-rājye—in his own kingdom; sthāpya—installing; dharmajam—Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira; nanda-yāmāsa—gladdened; suhṛdaḥ—friend of all; sādhūnām—of the saints; vartma—path; darśayan—by indication.
TRANSLATION
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, thus thinking to Himself, established Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira in the position of supreme control of the world in order to show the ideal of administration on the path of piety.
TEXT 17
उत्तरायां धृतः पूरोर्वंशः साध्वभिमन्युना । स वै द्रौष्यस्रस्त्रिष्टः पुनर्भगवता धृतः ॥१७॥
uttarāyāṁ dhṛtaḥ pūror vaṁśaḥ sādhv abhimanyunā sa vai drauṇy-astra-sampluṣṭaḥ- punar bhagavatā dhṛtaḥ
uttarāyāṁ—unto Uttarā; dhṛtaḥ—conceived; pūroḥ—of Pūru; vaṁśaḥ—descendant; sādhu abhimanyunā—by the hero Abhimanyu; saḥ—he; vai—certainly; drauṇi-astra—by the weapon of Drauṇi, the son of Droṇa; sampluṣṭaḥ—being burnt; punaḥ—again for the second time; bhagavatā—by the Personality of Godhead; dhṛtaḥ—protected.
TRANSLATION
The embryo of the descendant of Pūru, who was begotten by the great hero Abhimanyu in the womb of Uttarā, his wife, was burnt by the weapon of the son of Droṇa, but later on he was again protected by the Lord.
PURPORT
The embryonic body of Parīkṣit which was in formation after Uttarā's pregnancy by Abhimanyu, the great hero, was burned by the  brahmāstra  of Aśvatthāmā, but a second body was given by the Lord within the womb, and thus the descendant of Pūru was saved. This incident is the direct proof that the body and the living entity, the spiritual spark, are different. When the living entity takes shelter in the womb of a woman through the injection of the semina of a man, there is an emulsification of the man's