those followers and attendants hearing these and other soft words of the king sent forth a loud wail, uttering 'Oh, we are undone!' Then leaving the monarch, with hot tears trickling down their cheeks they returned to Hastinapore with speed, carrying that wealth with them (that was to be distributed in charity). Then Dhrita-rashtra, that first of men, heating from them everything that had happened in the woods, wept for his brother. He brooded over his affliction continually, little relishing the comfort of beds and seats and dishes.
"Meanwhile, the Kuru prince Pandu (after sending away his attendants), accompanied by his two wives, and eating of fruits and roots, went to the mountains of Naga-shata. He next went to Chaitra-ratha, and then crossed the Kala-kuta. Finally, crossing the Himavat he arrived at Gandhamadana. Protected by Maha-bhutas, Shidhas, and great Rishis, Pandu lived, O king, sometimes on level ground and sometimes on mountain slopes. He then journeyed to the lake of Indradyumna, whence crossing the mountains of Hansa-kuta he went to the mountain of hundred peaks and there practised ascetic austerities."
Thus ends the hundred and nineteenth Section in the Sambhava of the Adi Parva.
( Sambhava Parva continued. )
Vaisampayana said, "Pandu possessed of great energy then devoted himself to asceticism. Within a short time he became the favorite of the whole body of the Shidhas and the Charanas residing there. And, O Bharata, devoted to the service of his spiritual masters, free from vanity, with mind under complete control and the passions fully subdued, the prince, becoming competent to enter heaven by his own energy, attained to great (ascetic) prowess, Some of the Rishis would call him brother, some friend, while others cherished him as their son. And, O thou bull of the Bharata race, having acquired after a long time great ascetic merit coupled with
