Inviting then, after proper examination, superior Rishis, for the sake of Bhishma, as also of his sons and friends, and causing a large quantity of food and drink to be prepared, and cars and other vehicles and clothes, and gold and jewels and gems, and slaves both male and female, and goals and sheep, and blankets and rich articles to be collected, and villages and fields, and other kinds of wealth to be kept ready, as also elephants and horses decked with ornaments, and many beautiful maidens who were the best of their sex, that foremost of kings gave them away for the behoof of the dead, naming each of them in due order as the gifts were made. Naming Drona, Bhishma, Somadatta, Valhika, and king Duryodhana, and each one of his other sons, and all his well wishers with Jayadratha as the first, those gifts were made in due order.
ततोऽभिरूपान् भीष्माय ब्राह्मणानृषिसत्तमान्। पुत्रार्थे सुहृदश्चैव स समीक्ष्य सहस्रशः॥ कारयित्वान्नपानानि यानान्याच्छादनानि च। सुवर्णमणिरत्नानि दासीदासमजाविकम्॥ कम्बलानि च रत्नानि ग्रामान् क्षेत्रं तथा धनम्। सालङ्कारान् गजानश्वान् कन्याश्चैव वरस्त्रियः॥ उद्दिश्योद्दिश्य सर्वेभ्यो ददौ स नृपसत्तमः। द्रोणं संकीर्त्य भीष्मं च सोमदत्तं च बाह्निकम्॥ दुर्योधनं च राजानं पुत्रांश्चैव पृथक् पृथक्। जयद्रथपुरोगांश्च सुहृदश्चापि सर्वशः॥