Verse 13

¹³When they heard this from what Narada told them, king, anger rose in them, and, urged on by Ugrasena, they made ready to move against the Kurus. ¹⁴But Rama, who takes away the stain of the Kali age, soothed those bulls of the Vrsnis, armed as they already were; he did not want a quarrel between the Kurus and the Vrsnis. ¹⁵He went to Hastinapura in a chariot bright as the sun, with brahmins and the elders of his family around him, like the moon among the planets. ¹⁶Having come to the city named for the elephant, Rama stayed in a garden outside it and sent Uddhava to Dhrtarastra, to find out how things stood. ¹⁷He saluted Ambika's son, and Bhisma and Drona and Bahlika and Duryodhana, as is proper, and told them Rama had come.

¹⁸Delighted to hear that Rama, the best of friends, had come, they honoured him and all went out to meet him with the auspicious things in their hands. ¹⁹Meeting him as is right, they offered him a cow and water for washing; and those among them who knew what he can do bowed their heads to Bala.