Of rigid vows and well-read in the Vedas, the king of the Kaikeyas, O monarch, while living in the forest, was by force seized on a certain occasion by a Rakshasa.
केकयानामधिपतिं रक्षो जग्राह दारुणम्। स्वाध्यायेनान्वितं राजन्नरण्ये संशितव्रतम्॥