O Monarch! thus repeatedly cogitating over this subject and reflecting again and again about it, he (at last) decided the desertion of Damayanti to be the best course open to him.
स विनिश्चित्य बहुधा विचार्य च पुनः पुनः। उत्सर्ग मन्यते श्रेयो दमयन्त्या नराधिप॥