Sahadeva said Of the five sons of Pandu Yudhishthira is the eldest. He had one division of kine the number where of amounts to eight hundred and ten thousand and another ten thousand, and another twenty thousand and so forth. I was employed as an enumerator of cows under them; people used to call me Tantipala.
सहदेव उवाच पञ्चानां पाण्डुपुत्राणां ज्येष्ठो भ्राता युधिष्ठिरः। तस्याष्टशतसाहस्रा गवां वर्गाः शतं शतम्॥ अपरे शतसाहस्रा विस्तावन्तस्तथा परे। तेषां गोसंख्य आसं वै तन्तिपालेति मां विदुः॥