Verse 36

²⁸So the king of Ajamidha's line, whose eye was his understanding, was awakened by his younger brother Vidura; and cutting the firm cords of affection for his own people, he went out upon the road his brother had shown him. ²⁹Subala's daughter, devoted to her husband and true, followed him as he went to the Himalaya, which is the delight of those who have laid down the rod, as a good fight is the delight of the strong-minded. ³⁰He to whom no enemy was born, having done his morning duties and offered into the fire and bowed to the brahmanas with sesame, cows, land and gold, went into the house to salute his elders, and did not see his two uncles, nor Subala's daughter.

³¹Troubled in mind, he asked Sanjaya, who was sitting there: son of Gavalgana, where is our elder, old and bereft of his eyes? ³²And where is mother, stricken, her sons killed? Where has my uncle gone, my well-wisher? Can it be that he, his kinsmen killed and looking for some evil from me, who am without wisdom, threw himself in grief with his wife into the Ganges? ³³When my father Pandu had died, those two guarded all of us, his friends and his little ones, through every disaster. Where have they gone from here? ³⁴The Suta, worn thin by the separation, out of pity and the helplessness of affection, not seeing the master of his own self, was in too much pain to answer.

³⁵Wiping his tears away with his hands and steadying himself by himself, calling his master's feet to mind, he answered him to whom no enemy was born: ³⁶Joy of your line, I do not know what your elders resolved, nor what Gandhari resolved, mighty-armed one. I have been robbed by those great ones.