Bhishma, Vidura and the sons of Pandu all wept aloud. They at last came to a charming and holy wood on the banks of the Gangas. There they laid down the hearse on which the truthful, the lion hearted and the pious king and his wife lay.
क्रोशन्तः पाण्डवाः सर्वे भीष्मो विदुर एव च। रमणीये वनोद्देशे गङ्गातीरे समे शुभे॥ न्यासयामासुरथ तां शिबिकां सत्यवादिनः। सभार्यस्य नृसिंहस्य पाण्डोरक्लिष्टकर्मणः॥