Verse 29

²⁴There was a wheel on his right hand and the cup of a lotus on his feet. He worshipped with the great anointing, and, anointed, became the mighty overlord. ²⁵With fifty-five horses fit for the offering along the Ganga, and with Mamata's son before him as priest, along the Yamuna the mighty one ²⁶bound seventy-eight horses fit for the offering, and gave away his wealth. The fire of Bharata, Dusmanta's son, was piled at Saciguna, and at it a thousand brahmins shared out cows by the badva. ²⁷Having bound a hundred and thirty-three horses, and set the kings wondering, Dusyanta's son went past what maya can do, and came to the teacher of the gods.

²⁸At the rite at Masnara he gave away fourteen hundred thousand black deer with white teeth, all of them decked about with gold. ²⁹The great work of Bharata no kings before him and none after him have reached or will ever reach, any more than they will reach heaven with their arms.