Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

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धृतराष्ट्रः सह भ्रात्रा गान्धार्या च स्वभार्यया
दक्षिणेन हिमवत ऋषीणामाश्रमं गतः

dhṛtarāṣṭraḥ saha bhrātrā
gāndhāryā ca sva-bhāryayā
dakṣiṇena himavata
ṛṣīṇām āśramaṁ gataḥ

WORD BY WORD

dhṛtarāṣṭraḥ — Dhṛtarāṣṭra; saha — along with; bhrātrā — his brother Vidura; gāndhāryā — Gāndhārī also; ca — and; sva-bhāryayā — his own wife; dakṣiṇena — by the southern side; himavataḥ — of the Himālaya Mountains; ṛṣīṇām — of the ṛṣis; āśramam — in shelter; gataḥ — he has gone;

TRANSLATION

O King, your uncle Dhṛtarāṣṭra, his brother Vidura and his wife Gāndhārī have gone to the southern side of the Himālaya Mountains, where there are shelters of the great sages.

PURPORT

To pacify the mourning Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, Nārada first of all spoke from the philosophical point of view, and then he began to describe the future movements of his uncle, which he could see by his foreseeing powers, and thus began to describe as follows.

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