Gifted with great energy and the foremost of all persons endued with intelligence, Vidura. having arrived at at Yudhishthira's palace, addressed that foremost of men, that king of undecaying glory, in these words:—King Diritarashtra has perforined the preliminary rites for accomplishing his purpose of retiring into the forest. He will start for the woods, O king, on the coming day of full moon of the month of Kartika.
स गत्वा राजवचनादुवाचाच्युतमीश्वरम्। युधिष्ठिरं महातेजाः सर्वबुद्धिमतां वरः॥ धृतराष्ट्रो महाराजो वनवासाय दीक्षितः। गमिष्यति वनं राजन्नागतां कार्तिकीमिमाम्॥