The king, having rewarded those men beforehand, commanded them to perform those rites of cremation which the bodies of Dhritarashtra and Gandhari and Kunti still awaited.
तत्रैव तेषां कृत्यानि गङ्गाद्वारेऽन्वशात् तदा। कर्तव्यानीति पुरुषान् दत्तदेयान्महीपतिः॥