Vaishampayana said: "These finest of men ate forest fare and the flesh of animals struck down by clean arrows, having first offered the best of it to the brahmins. As the great archers dwelt in the forest, brahmins followed after them — those who kept the sacred fires and those who did not. Yudhishthira supported thousands of great snatakas and ten knowers of liberation besides. He hunted ruru deer, black antelope, and other pure forest creatures and, in due form, offered them to the brahmins. There was no one there of wretched appearance, no one sick, thin, weak, poor, or afraid. The Kaurava's foremost, Yudhishthira the king of righteousness, sustained them all as if they were his own beloved sons, kinsmen, and brothers born of one womb. And glorious Draupadi, like a mother, first fed all her husbands and the twice-born, and only then ate what remained. The king hunted in the east, Bhima in the south, and the twins in the west and the north; the bearers of the bow, going out daily, brought about the destruction of the deer for the sake of meat. Thus, for those who dwelt in Kamyaka, grieving in Arjuna's absence, five years passed in study, in the recitation of japa, and in offering oblations."