तथा भीष्मः शांतनवो विदुरश् च महामतिः ॥
सर्वशः कौरवाश् चैव प्राणदन् भृशदुःखिताः ॥
ततो भीष्मो ऽथ विदुरो राजा च सह बन्धुभिः ॥
उदकं चक्रिरे तस्य सर्वाश् च कुरुयोषितः ॥
कृतोदकांस् तान् आदाय पाण्डवाञ् शोककर्शितान् ॥
सर्वाः प्रकृतयो राजञ् शोचन्त्यः पर्यवारयन् ॥
यथैव पाण्डवा भूमौ सुषुपुः सह बान्धवैः ॥
तथैव नागरा राजञ् शिश्यिरे ब्राह्मणादयः ॥
तद् अनानन्दम् अस्वस्थम् आकुमारम् अहृष्टवत् ॥
बभूव पाण्डवैः सार्धं नगरं द्वादश क्षपाः ॥
tathā bhīṣmaḥ śāṃtanavo viduraś ca mahāmatiḥ ||
sarvaśaḥ kauravāś caiva prāṇadan bhṛśaduḥkhitāḥ ||
tato bhīṣmo 'tha viduro rājā ca saha bandhubhiḥ ||
udakaṃ cakrire tasya sarvāś ca kuruyoṣitaḥ ||
kṛtodakāṃs tān ādāya pāṇḍavāñ śokakarśitān ||
sarvāḥ prakṛtayo rājañ śocantyaḥ paryavārayan ||
yathaiva pāṇḍavā bhūmau suṣupuḥ saha bāndhavaiḥ ||
tathaiva nāgarā rājañ śiśyire brāhmaṇādayaḥ ||
tad anānandam asvastham ākumāram ahṛṣṭavat ||
babhūva pāṇḍavaiḥ sārdhaṃ nagaraṃ dvādaśa kṣapāḥ ||
"So Bhishma, son of Shantanu, and the wise Vidura, and all the Kauravas everywhere wept, deeply grieving. Then Bhishma, Vidura, and the king, with their kinsmen, and all the wives of Kuru performed the water-offering for him. Taking those Pandavas, who had already performed the water-offering, worn out with grief, all the subjects, O king, grieving, surrounded them. And as the Pandavas slept on the ground together with their kinsmen, so too the townsfolk lay down — brahmins and others. That city, together with the Pandavas, became joyless, unwell, cheerless down to the last child, for twelve nights."
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Here all of Hastinapura shares the mourning with the orphaned Pandavas. Telling is the water-offering (udaka) — the rite of remembrance by which the living see off the departed and ease his path. Telling too is the unity in grief: the subjects do not abandon the orphans but "surround" them and sleep on the ground together with them for twelve nights — the whole city shares their sorrow as its own. Here is the power of the love binding rulers and people: where a king was a father, his orphans are cherished by the whole city. Thus scripture shows the completion of the funeral rite and the beginning of a new season — the season of the Pandavas' orphanhood under the roof of the Kurus; the people's love that surrounded them in grief is a good pledge, but ahead awaits a household where, alongside love, enmity too will grow.