Having put an end to their forest life, those sons of Pandu, wielders of great bows, endued with great strength, equipped with swords, wearing beards and looking wan proceeded through Yakrilloma and and Shurasena, and leaving the country of Panchalas on the south and that of Dasharna on the north, dwelling (sometimes) in hill-forts and forest fastness and killing the deer (in their journey) entered Matsya's dominions giving out themselves as hunters.
विध्यन्तो मृगजातानि महेष्वासा महाबलाः। उत्तरेण दशार्णांस्ते पञ्चालान् दक्षिणेन च॥ अन्तरेण यकृल्लोमान् शूरसेनांश्च पाण्डवाः। लुब्धा ब्रुवाणा मत्स्यस्य विषयं प्राविशन् वनात्॥ धन्विनो बद्धनिस्त्रिंशा विवर्णाः श्मश्रुधारिणः। ततो जनपदं प्राप्य कृष्णा राजानमब्रवीत्॥