Bring also some priests for the performance of a special rite and hundreds and hundreds of best Brahmanas.” Having given these orders to the servants, powerful Baladeva started on a pilgrimage at that time of great danger to the Kurus. Setting out towards the Sarasvati, he visited all the sacred shrines along her course, accompanied by priests, friends and many leading Brahmanas, as also with cars and elephants and horses and servants, O best of Bharata's race and with many vehicles drawn by kine and mules and camels.
ऋत्विजश्चानयध्वं वै शतशश्च द्विजर्षभान्। एवं संदिश्य तु प्रेष्यान् बलदेवो महाबलः॥ तीर्थयात्रां ययौ राजन् कुरूणां वैशसे तदा। सरस्वती प्रतिस्रोतः समन्तादभिजग्मिवान्॥ ऋत्विग्भिश्च सुहृद्धिश्च तथान्यैर्द्विजसत्तमैः। स्थैर्गजैस्तताश्चैश्च प्रेष्यैश्च भरतर्षभ॥