The Pandava, the descendant of Kuru (Arjuna), finding them uninhabited and ascertaining that they were shunned by the ascetics, asked with joined hands those pious men that lived near them, “Why these Tirthas are shunned by the Brahmavadis (the utterers of the Vedas).”
विविक्तान्युपलक्ष्याथ तानि तीर्थानि पाण्डवः। दृष्ट्वा च वय॑मानानि मुनिभिर्धर्मबुद्धिभिः॥ तपस्विनस्ततोऽपृच्छत् प्राञ्जलिः कुरुनन्दनः। तीर्थानीमानि वय॑न्ते किमर्थं ब्रह्मवादिभिः॥