SECTION –XXIII
(Arjunabhigamana Parva Continued)
Vaisampayana continued, "After the chief of
the Dasharhas had departed, the heroic Yudhishthira, and Bhima, and Arjuna, and
the twins, each looking like unto Shiva, and Krishna, and their priest,
ascending costly cars unto which were yoked excellent steeds, together went
into the forest. And at time of going they distributed Nishkas of gold and
clothes and kine unto Brahmanas versed in Siksha and Akshara and mantras. And
twenty attendants followed them equipped with bows, and bowstrings, and blazing
weapons, and shafts and arrows and engines of destruction. And taking the
princess's clothes and the ornaments, and the nurses and the maid-servants,
Indrasena speedily followed the princes on a car. And then approaching the best
of Kurus, the high-minded citizens walked round him. And the principal
Brahmanas of Kurujangala cheerfully saluted him. And together with his
brothers, Yudhishthira the just, on his part saluted them cheerfully. And the
illustrious king stopped there a little, beholding the concourse of the
inhabitants of Kurujangala. And the illustrious bull among the Kurus felt for
them as a father feeleth for his sons, and they too felt for the Kuru chief even
as sons feel for their father! And that mighty concourse, approaching the Kuru
hero, stood around him. And, O king, affected, with bashfulness, and with tears
in their eyes, they all exclaimed, 'Alas, O lord! O Dharma!' And they said,
'Thou art the chief of the Kurus, and the king of us, thy subjects! Where dost
thou go, O just monarch, leaving all these citizens and the inhabitants of the
country, like a father leaving his sons? Fie on the cruel-hearted son of
Dhritarashtra! Fie on the evil-minded son of Suvala! Fie on Karna! For, O
foremost of monarchs, those wretches ever wish unto thee who art firm in
virtue! Having thyself established the unrivalled city of Indraprastha of the
splendour of Kailasa itself, where dost thou go, leaving it, O illustrious and
just king, O achiever of extraordinary deeds! O illustrious one, leaving that
peerless palace built by Maya, which possesseth the splendour of the palace of
the celestials themselves, and is like unto a celestial illusion, ever guarded
by the gods, where dost thou go, O son of Dharma?' And Vibhatsu knowing the
ways of virtue, pleasure, and profit said unto them in a loud voice, 'Living in
the forest, the king intendeth to take away the good name of his enemies! O we
with the regenerate ones at your head, versed in virtue and profit, do you
approaching the ascetics separately and inclining them to grace, represent unto
them what may be for our supreme good!' Upon hearing these words of Arjuna, the
Brahmanas and the other orders, O king, saluting him cheerfully walked round
the foremost of virtuous men! And bidding farewell unto the son of Pritha, and
Vrikodara, and Dhananjaya and Yajnaseni, and the twins, and commanded by
Yudhishthira, they returned to their respective abodes in the kingdom with heavy
hearts."
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