The sky and the stars shone with a stainless lustre and the country was swarmed with beasts and birds. This season of autumn became auspicious to the high-souled sons of Pandu.
विमलाकाशनक्षत्रा शरत् तेषां शिवाभवत्। मृगद्विजसमाकीर्णा पाण्डवानां महात्मनाम्॥