The warriors who had accompanied the Pandavas, leaving the retreat, sat themselves down at a little distance, getting down from their cars and the animals they rode. Indeed, after all the crowd, viz., the ladies the old men and the children, had been seated, the old king duly addressed thein after making the usual polite enquireis.
योधेषु वाप्याश्रममण्डलं तं मुक्त्वा निविष्टेषु विमुच्य पत्रम्। स्त्रीवृद्धबाले च सुसंनिविष्टे यथार्हतस्तान् कुशलान्यपृच्छत्॥