O mighty monarch! in this vast wilderness I, your best-loved Damayanti, now forlorn and forsaken, am calling out your name; why do you not answer me?
महाराज महारण्ये अहमेकाकिनी सती। दमयन्त्यभिभाषे त्वां किं मां न प्रतिभाषसे।॥