Vaishampayana said : Those heroic men having rescued Krishna, chastised the chief of the Sindhus, heard from Markandeya the old storied about the celestials and the Rishis and passed the entire period of their painful forest life, returned from their hermitage in Kamyaka to the sacred Dvaiytavana together with the Brahmanas, their cars, followers, charioteers, the citizens (who had followed them to the forest) and their COWS.
वैशम्पायन उवाच लम्वा कृष्णां सैन्धवं द्रावयित्वा विप्रैः सार्धं काम्यकादाश्रमात् ते। मार्कण्डेयाच्छृतवन्तः पुराणं देवर्षीणां चरितं विस्तरेण॥