The Brahmanas, some offering sacrifice to the fire, some without it, some engaged in the study of the Vedas, some depending upon alms and some living in the forest, all these numberless Brahmanas as well as hundreds of Mahatamas of accomplished ascetic piety and hard austerities surrounded Yudhishthira.
ब्राह्मणाः साग्निहोत्राश्च तथैव च निरग्नयः। स्वाध्यायिनो भिक्षवश्च तथैव वनवासिनः॥ बहवो ब्राह्मणास्तत्र परिवव॒र्युधिष्ठिरम्। तप:सिद्धा महात्मानः शतशः संशितव्रताः॥