Verse 17

¹²Then the brahmins ploughed the ground where the gods are worshipped with golden ploughs, and there, as the handed-down rule has it, they consecrated the king. ¹³The vessels were of gold, as they had been long ago at Varuna's. Indra and the other guardians of the worlds, with Virinci and Bhava, ¹⁴with their hosts, the perfected ones and the gandharvas, the vidyadharas and the great serpents, the sages, the yaksas and raksasas, birds, kinnaras and caranas, ¹⁵and the kings who had been called, and the wives of kings from every quarter, came together at the Rajasuya of the king, the son of Pandu. ¹⁶They took it as no more than fitting for a man devoted to Krsna, and were not astonished. Priests with the brightness of gods had the great king sacrifice

¹⁷with the Rajasuya as the rule directs, as the deathless ones had done for Pracetas. On the day of the pressing the guardian of the earth, well collected, honoured as was proper the sacrificers and the lords of the assembly, greatly favoured men.