114 - SAMBHAVA PARVA Continued

 

1. Vaishampayana said: He (Pandu), at the command of Dhritarashtra, offered the wealth acquired by the prowess of his arms of Bhishma, to Satya- vati and to their mother (Kausalya).

2. Pandu sent a portion of the wealth to Vidura. The virtuous minded man (Pandu) gratified his friends and relatives with (the presents of) wealth.

3. The descendant of Bharata, (Pandu) gratified Satyavati, Bhishma and the illustrious and amiable princess of Kausalya with the wealth, acquired by his prowess of arms.

4. Kausalya, in embracing her son of matchless prowess became as glad as Sachi on embracing Jayanta (her son).

5. Dhritarashtra performed with the wealth acquired by that hero five great sacrifices, in which offerings were made to the Brahmanas by hundreds and thousands and in which so much wealth was spent as would have been sufficient for one hundred Horse sacrifices.

6. O best of the Bharata race, some time after, Pandu, who had mastered over his senses, retired into a forest with (his wives) Kunti and Madri.

7. He left his excellent palace and its luxurious bed. He lived always in the forest, being ever engaged in hunting.

8. He lived in a delightful and hilly region over grown with huge Shala trees on the southern slope of the Himalayas where he roamed freely.

9. The handsome Pandu roamed in the forest with Kunti and Madri like Airavata with two female elephants.

10-11. The dwellers of (that) forest regarded the heroic Bharata prince with his two wives, (Pandu), armed with swords, arrows and bows and encased in beautiful armour, as a god wandering amongst them. The people were busy in supplying every object of pleasure and enjoyment to him in his retirement at the command of Dhritarashtra.

12. The son of the river (Bhishma) heard that king Devaka had a daughter, young and beautiful, born in a Shudra wife.

13. The best of the Bharata race (Bhishma) brought her from her father’s abode and he married her to the high minded Vidura.

14. The descendant of Kuru, Vidura, begot on her children as gentle and accomplished as he himself was.

Thus ends the hundred and fourteenth chapter, the marriage of Vidura, in the Sambhava of the Adi Parva.