Janamejaya said Tell me, o learned Brahman, what that wonderful feat was, which the great Rishi Vyasa of great energy accomplished after he had his made promise to the old king, when Dhritarashtra, that foremost one of Kuru's race, had taken up his residence in the forest, with his wife, and with his daughter-in-law Kunti and after, indeed, Vidura had left his own body and entered into Yudhishthria, and at the time when all the sons of Pandu were living in the hermitage.
जनमेजय उवाच वनवासं गते विप्र धृतराष्ट्र महीपतौ। सभार्ये नृपशार्दूले बध्वा कुन्त्या समन्विते॥ विदुरे चापि संसिद्धे धर्मराजं व्यपाश्रिते। वसत्सु पाण्डुपुत्रेषु सर्वेष्वाश्रममण्डले॥ यत् तदाश्चर्यमिति वै करिष्यामीत्युवाच ह। व्यासः परमतेजस्वी महर्षिस्तद् वदस्व मे॥