Ascertaining the desire of Yudhishthira and seeing the destruction of the Vrishnis, no other course of action could satisfy them then. The five brothers, with Draupadi forming the sixth, and a dog forming the seventh, started on their Journey. Thus did king Yudhishthira depart, himself heading a party of seven, from the city of Hastinapur. The citizens and they royal ladies followed them for some distance.
युधिष्ठिरमतं ज्ञात्वा वृष्णिक्षयमवेक्ष्य च। भ्रातरः पञ्च कृष्णा च षष्ठी श्वा चैव सप्तमः॥ आत्मना सप्तमो राजा निर्ययौ गजसाह्वयात्। पौरेरनुगतो दूरं सर्वैरन्तःपुरैस्तथा।॥