Accompanied by a number of priests he then left the city of Hastinapur having seen that the sun ceasing to go southwards, had begun to proceed in his northward course.
स निर्ययौ गजपुराद् याजकैः परिवारितः। दृष्ट्वा निवृत्तमादित्यं प्रवृतं चोत्तरायणम्॥