O best of the Bharata race, in the evening he reached a fearful forest where fruits and roots and water were scarce and (which was) full of terrible roars of birds and beasts.
अगमच्च वनोद्देशमल्पमूलफलोदकम्। क्रूरपक्षिमृगं घोरं सायाह्ने भरतर्षभ।॥