12001001a kRtodakAs te suhRdAM sarveSAmM pANDunandanAH
12001001c viduro dhRtarASTraz ca sarvAz ca bharatastriyaH 'Having offered oblations, of water unto all their friends and kinsmen, the sons of pANDu, and vidura, and dhRtarASTra, and all the bharata ladies,
12001002a tatra te sumahAtmAno nyavasan kurunandanAH
12001002c zaucanM nivartayiSyanto mAsam ekamM bahiH purAt continued to dwell there (on the banks of the sacred stream). The high-souled sons of pANDu desired to pass the period of mourning, 1 which extended for a month, outside the kuru city.
12001003a kRtodakanM tu rAjAnanM dharmAtmAnaM yudhiSThiram
12001004a dvaipAyano nAradaz ca devalaz ca mahAn RSiH
12001004c devasthAnaz ca kaNvaz ca teSAM ziSyAz ca sattamAH After king yudhiSThira the just had performed the water-rites, many high-souled sages crowned with ascetic success and many foremost of regenerate RSis came there to see the monarch. Among them were the Island-born (Vyasa), and Narada, and the great RSi Devala, and Devasthana, and Kanwa. They were all accompanied by best of their pupils.
12001005a anye ca vedavidvAMsaH kRtaprajJA dvijAtayaH Many other members of the regenerate order, possessed of wisdom and accomplished in the Vedas,
12001005c gRhasthAsH snAtakAsH sarve dadRzuH kurusattamam leading lives of domesticity or belonging to the Snataka class, came to behold the kuru king.
12001006a abhigamya mahAtmAnaH pUjitAz ca yathAvidhi Those high-souled ones, as they came, were duly worshipped by yudhiSThira.
12001006c AsaneSu mahArheSu vivizus te maharSayaH The great RSis then took their seats on costly carpets.
12001007a pratigRhya tataH pUjAM tatkAlasadRzIM tadA Accepting the worship suited to that period (of mourning and impurity) that was offered them,
12001007c paryupAsan yathAnyAyamM parivArya yudhiSThiram they sat in due order around the king.
12001008a puNye bhAgIrathItIre zokavyAkulacetasam Then on the sacred banks of the Bhagirathi, to that king whose heart was exceedingly agitated by grief,
12001008c AzvAsayanto rAjAnaM viprAzH zatasahasrazaH thousands of brAhmaNas offered consolation and comfort.
12001009a nAradas tv abravIt kAle dharmAtmAnaM yudhiSThiram Then Narada, in due time, addressed yudhiSThira, the son of dharma,
12001009c vicArya munibhisH sArdhanM tatkAlasadRzaM vacaH after having accosted the RSis with the Island-born for their first, , saying --
