I am wandering through the length and breadth of this wood, over mountains, among rivers, lakes, tanks and expanses of water and forests, with a sorrowful heart, in quest of my lord Nala, versed in the tactics of war, skilled in the use of weapons and of high soul.
सा वनानि गिरीश्चैव सरांसि सरितस्तथा। पल्वलानि च सर्वाणि तथारण्यानि सर्वशः॥ अन्वेषमाणा भर्तारं नलं रणविशारदम्। महात्मानं कृतास्त्रं च विचरामीह दुःखिता॥