It was full of splendour, it produced matchless merits, it was majestic with divine qualities. It was inhabited by many great Rishis living on fruits and roots, having their passions controlled, wearing black deer skins, looking as effulgent as the sun and Agni, possessing souls magnified by asceticism and mind intent on emancipation, leading the Vanaprastha life, identifying themselves with the Supreme Soul and reciting the Vedas. That greatly effulgent of Dharma, Yudhishthira, with his brothers, restraining his senses and purifying himself, went to those Rishis, who, having seen by their supernatural knowledge the arrival of Yudhishthira,
श्रिया युतमनिर्देश्यं देवचर्योपशोभितम्। फलमूलाशनैर्दान्तैश्चारुकृष्णाजिनाम्बरैः॥ सूर्यवैश्वानरसमैस्तपसा भावितात्मभिः। महर्षिभिर्मोक्षपरैर्यतिभिर्नियतेन्द्रियैः॥ ब्रह्मभूतैर्महाभागैरुपेतं ब्रह्मवादिभिः। सोऽभ्यगच्छन्महातेजास्तानृषीन् प्रयतः शुचिः॥ भ्रातृभिः सहितोधीमान्धर्मपुत्रो युधिष्ठिरः। दिव्यज्ञानोपपन्नास्ते दृष्ट्वा प्राप्तं युधिष्ठिरम्॥