O great Rishi, O best of the Brahmanas, how did the twelve years of those heroes, those slayers of foes, pass away in the forest?
कथं च द्वादश समा वने तेषां महामुने। व्यतीयुर्ब्राह्मणश्रेष्ठ शूराणामरिघातिनाम्॥