वैशंपायन उवाच
ततः क्षत्ता च राजा च भीष्मश् च सह बन्धुभिः ॥
ददुः श्राद्धं तदा पाण्डोः स्वधामृतमयं तदा ॥
कुरूंश् च विप्रमुख्यांश् च भोजयित्वा सहस्रशः ॥
रत्नौघान् द्विजमुख्येभ्यो दत्त्वा ग्रामवरान् अपि ॥
कृतशौचांस् ततस् तांस् तु पाण्डवान् भरतर्षभान् ॥
आदाय विविशुः पौराः पुरं वारणसाह्वयम् ॥
सततं स्मान्वतप्यन्त तम् एव भरतर्षभम् ॥
पौरजानपदाः सर्वे मृतं स्वम् इव बान्धवम् ॥
vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca
tataḥ kṣattā ca rājā ca bhīṣmaś ca saha bandhubhiḥ ||
daduḥ śrāddhaṃ tadā pāṇḍoḥ svadhāmṛtamayaṃ tadā ||
kurūṃś ca vipramukhyāṃś ca bhojayitvā sahasraśaḥ ||
ratnaughān dvijamukhyebhyo dattvā grāmavarān api ||
kṛtaśaucāṃs tatas tāṃs tu pāṇḍavān bharatarṣabhān ||
ādāya viviśuḥ paurāḥ puraṃ vāraṇasāhvayam ||
satataṃ smānvatapyanta tam eva bharatarṣabham ||
paurajānapadāḥ sarve mṛtaṃ svam iva bāndhavam ||
Vaishampayana said: 'Then Vidura, the king, and Bhishma together with their kinsmen performed the shraddha for Pandu, filled with funeral offerings; and having fed thousands of Kurus and the foremost brahmins, having given the foremost of the twice-born streams of jewels and even choice villages, the citizens, taking the purified Pandavas, bulls among the Bharatas, entered Hastinapura. All the citizens and country-folk constantly grieved for that bull among the Bharatas, as for their own departed kinsman.'
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Here the funeral rites for Pandu conclude with the shraddha and lavish giving. It is telling that the shraddha is accompanied by feeding brahmins and by gifts: remembrance of the departed is enacted through nourishing and honoring the worthy, for the good done to them reaches the ancestor. Here the bond between the living and the departed through giving and devotion comes into view: what helps the departed is not weeping but righteous deeds performed on his behalf. Telling, too, is the people's unabating love: they grieve for Pandu "as for their own kin" -- the measure of a righteous ruler. So the scripture closes the story of Pandu's death and turns to a new time -- the coming of age of his orphaned sons.