Vaishampayana said Beholding the Suta's slain, people went and communicated to the king: "O king, the highly powerful sons of Suta have been slain by the Gandharvas.

The Suta's are to be seen scattered on the surface of the earth like huge mountain summits clapped by thunder-bolt.

And released Sairandhri comes back to your city; your (whole) city, o king, indeed shall be in danger.

Sairandhri is highly beautiful and the Gandharvas are greatly powerful and forsooth, men are undoubtedly lustful.

Soon find out some means O king, by which your kingdom may not be ruined on account of the injuries done to Sairandhri.'

Hearing their words, Virata, the king of armies, said : “Perform the obsequial rites of the Sutas."

Let all the Kichaka's be burnt down on one burning, funeral pyre with profuse jems and perfumes.

Then filled with fear, the king said to his queen Sudeshna: 'When Sairandhri comes, tell her these words of mine.

Go Sairandhri, wherever you like; may good betide you, O fair one, O you having beautiful eye-brows, the king is afraid of defeat from the Gandharvas.

I dare not speak all this to you in person, protected as you are by the Gandharvas. A woman cannot offend (any body) so I speak this through her.

Vaishampayana said Thus released by Bhimasena after the destruction of Sutas, the intelligent Krishna freed from fear, washed her body and raiment in water and went towards the city like a doe put to fright by a tiger,

Beholding her, O king, people fled away in all directions in fear of the Gandharvas and some even shut up their eyes.

Then, o king, Panchali saw Bhimsena, waiting at the kitchen door like a huge infuriated elephant.

She wonderingly said to him in words intelligible to them: “Salutation to that king of Gandharvas by whom I have been released.

Bhima said Hearing these words of hers under which those persons were till then living in that city, they will now live there freed from debt.

Vaishampayana said She there the mighty-armed Dhananjaya in the dancing hall giving instructions in dancing to the daughter of the king Virata.

Then coming out with Arjuna from the dancing hall, those daughters saw the innocent saw Krishna (though) sorely persecuted coming. Beholding her arrive there they all delightedly said.

The Daughters said By good luck, O Sairandhri, you have been released and by good-luck you have returned. And by good luck the Sutas have been slain from whom this your misery came.

Brihannala said Have you been released, O Sairandhri, and have those wicked men been slain? I wish to hear all this exactly as it happened.

Sairandhri said O blessed Brihnnala, you always live happily in the apartment of the girls, what have you to do with Sairandhri?

You shall not meet with grief when Sairandhri does it. You are asking me thus in jest who am stricken with sorrow.

Brihannala said O blessed lady, Brihannala also has sorrow of her own without any comparison; she has been born in the species of brutes, you do not understand this, O girl.

I have lived with you and you also have lived with us; why should not one, O you of beautiful hips, feel sorrow for you who are afflicted with sorrow.

No one can definitely read another's heart; therefore O fair one, you cannot understand me.

Then accompanied by those girls Draupadi entered the palace with a view to appear before Sudeshna.

Then the queen communicated to her Virata's words: 'Sairandhri, soon go wherever you wish.

O fair one, the king is afraid of the defeat from the Gandharvas. O you of beautiful eyebrows, you are youthful and in beauty, unparalleled on earth. You are an object of desire to men and the Gandharvas are wrathful.

Sairandhri said O fair queen, let the king permit me to live here for thirteen days more. Undoubtedly the Gandharvas shall be highly obliged for this.

They will then take me away from here and will do what is agreeable to you. Forsooth the king with his friends shall meet with wellbeing.