The dwellers of this region are free from diseases. They are ever happy. O king, they live ten thousand and ten hundred years and they never abandon one another. A kind of birds called Bharunda of sharp beaks and of great strength takes them up when dead and throws them into the mountain caves. O king, I have now described to you the northern Kuru.
निरामयाश्च ते लोका नित्यं मुदितमानसाः॥ दश वर्षसहस्राणि दश वर्षशतानि च। जीवन्ति ते महाराज न चान्योन्यं जहत्युत॥ भारुण्डा नाम शकुनास्तीक्ष्णतुण्डा महाबलाः। तान् निर्हरन्तीह मृतान् दरीषु प्रक्षिपन्ति च॥ उत्तराः कुरवो राजन् व्याख्यातास्ते समासतः।