Do whatever you please and make a searching enquiry into this matter." Thereupon that king, using both menace and conciliation, asked about the matter, his friends. But they could not tell him anything. Seeing the soldiers in great sorrow on account of their great distress and her father aggrieved, Sukanya thus spoke, "While roving in the forest, I saw something brilliant within the ant-hill.
सर्वोपायैर्यथाकामं भवांस्तदधिगच्छतु। ततः स पृथिवीपल: साम्ना चोग्रेण च स्वयम्॥ पर्यपृच्छत् सुहृद्वर्गं पर्यजानन्न चैव ते। आनाहार्तं ततो दृष्ट्वा तत्सैन्यमसुखार्दितम्॥ पितरं दुःखितं दृष्ट्वा सुकन्येदमथाब्रवीत्। मयाटन्त्येह वल्मीके दृष्टं सत्त्वमभिज्वलत्॥