Mahabharata 1.106: ṣaḍadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ

1.106.1

vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca |
dhṛtarāṣṭrābhyanujñātaḥ svabāhuvijitaṃ dhanam |
bhīṣmāya satyavatyai ca mātre copajahāra saḥ || 1 ||

"Vaisampayana said, 'Pandu, then, at the command of Dhritarashtra, offered the wealth he had acquired by the prowess of his arms to Bhishma, their grand-mother Satyavati and their mothers. And he sent portion of his wealth to Vidura also. And the virtuous Pandu gratified his other relatives also with similar presents. Then Satyavati and Bhishma and the Kosala princes were all gratified with the presents Pandu made out of the acquisitions of his prowess. And Ambalika in particular, upon embracing her son of incomparable prowess, became as glad as the queen of heaven upon embracing Jayanta. And with the wealth acquired by that hero Dhritarashtra performed five great sacrifices that were equal unto a hundred great horse-sacrifices, at all of which the offerings to Brahmanas were by hundreds and thousands.

1.106.2

vidurāya ca vai pāṇḍuḥ preṣayāmāsa taddhanam |
suhṛdaścāpi dharmātmā dhanena samatarpayat || 2 ||

1.106.3

tataḥ satyavatīṃ bhīṣmaḥ kausalyāṃ ca yaśasvinīm |
śubhaiḥ pāṇḍujitai ratnaistoṣayāmāsa bhārata || 3 ||

1.106.4

nananda mātā kausalyā tamapratimatejasam |
jayantamiva paulomī pariṣvajya nararṣabham || 4 ||

1.106.5

tasya vīrasya vikrāntaiḥ sahasraśatadakṣiṇaiḥ |
aśvamedhaśatairīje dhṛtarāṣṭro mahāmakhaiḥ || 5 ||

1.106.6

saṃprayuktaśca kuntyā ca mādryā ca bharatarṣabha |
jitatandrīstadā pāṇḍurbabhūva vanagocaraḥ || 6 ||

"A little while after, O bull of Bharata's race, Pandu who had achieved a victory over sloth and lethargy, accompanied by his two wives, Kunti and Madri, retired into the woods. Leaving his excellent palace with its luxurious beds, he became a permanent inhabitant of the woods, devoting the whole of his time to the chase of the deer. And fixing his abode in a delightful and hilly region overgrown with huge sala trees, on the southern slope of the Himavat mountains, he roamed about in perfect freedom. The handsome Pandu with his two wives wandered in those woods like Airavata accompanied by two she-elephants. And the dwellers in those woods, beholding the heroic Bharata prince in the company of his wives, armed with sword, arrows, and bow, clad with his beautiful armour, and skilled in all excellent weapons, regarded him as the very god wandering amongst them.

1.106.7

hitvā prāsādanilayaṃ śubhāni śayanāni ca |
araṇyanityaḥ satataṃ babhūva mṛgayāparaḥ || 7 ||

1.106.8

sa carandakṣiṇaṃ pārśvaṃ ramyaṃ himavato gireḥ |
uvāsa giripṛṣṭheṣu mahāśālavaneṣu ca || 8 ||

1.106.9

rarāja kuntyā mādryā ca pāṇḍuḥ saha vane vasan |
kareṇvoriva madhyasthaḥ śrīmānpauraṃdaro gajaḥ || 9 ||

1.106.10

bhārataṃ saha bhāryābhyāṃ bāṇakhaḍgadhanurdharam |
vicitrakavacaṃ vīraṃ paramāstravidaṃ nṛpam |
devo'yamityamanyanta carantaṃ vanavāsinaḥ || 10 ||

1.106.11

tasya kāmāṃśca bhogāṃśca narā nityamatandritāḥ |
upajahrurvanānteṣu dhṛtarāṣṭreṇa coditāḥ || 11 ||

"And at the command of Dhritarashtra, people were busy in supplying Pandu in his retirement with every object of pleasure and enjoyment.

1.106.12

atha pāraśavīṃ kanyāṃ devakasya mahīpateḥ |
rūpayauvanasaṃpannāṃ sa śuśrāvāpagāsutaḥ || 12 ||

"Meanwhile the son of the ocean-going Ganga heard that king Devaka had a daughter endued with youth and beauty and begotten upon a Sudra wife. Bringing her from her father's abode, Bhishma married her to Vidura of great wisdom. And Vidura begot upon her many children like unto himself in accomplishments.'"

1.106.13

tatastu varayitvā tāmānāyya puruṣarṣabhaḥ |
vivāhaṃ kārayāmāsa vidurasya mahāmateḥ || 13 ||

1.106.14

tasyāṃ cotpādayāmāsa viduraḥ kurunandanaḥ |
putrānvinayasaṃpannānātmanaḥ sadṛśānguṇaiḥ || 14 ||