Seeing that huge forest abounding in many deer and wild animals, resonant with the shrill cries of birds and hearing the yells of the wild animals, Yudhishthira said to his brothers,
ततो मृगज्यालगणानुकीर्ण महावनं तद् विहगोपघुष्टम्। भ्रातूंश्च तानभ्यवदद् युधिष्ठिरः श्रुत्वा गिरो व्याहरतां मृगाणाम्॥