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King Bhishma, son of the Ganges and
Santanu, gave leave to Yudhisthira and
his ministers and told him sweetly:
 
'प्रविश स्वपुरीं राजन् धर्मे च त्रियतां मनः ।
श्रेयसा योक्ष्यसे चैव व्येतु ते मानसो ज्वरः ।
आगन्तव्यं च भवता प्रवृत्ते चोत्तरायणे ॥'
"King, go to your City; let your mind
be set on Dharma ; son of Pritha (Kunti) !
You will attain good fortune; let your
mind's fever disappear ; you must come
(here again to me) when the sun has
begun to go northwards from the South."
 
तथेत्युक्त्वा च कौन्तेयः प्रययौ नागसाह्वयम् ।
उषित्वा शर्वरीः श्रीमान् पञ्चाशनगरोत्तमे ।
दृष्ट्वा निवृत्तमादित्यं पारिबर्हेण संवृतः ।
आससाद कुरुक्षेत्रे ततश्शान्तनवं नृपः ॥
 
ANUSASANA PARVA
 
Saying that he would do so, Yudhisthira
went to Hastinapura. After living in his
excellent city for fifty nights, and seeing
then that the sun had returned (from
the South ), king Yudhisthira, surrounded
by his retinue, came to Bhishma in
Kurukshetra.