Having said thus to his children, the king went to the forest. Arrived there, she arrived at a hermitage inhabited by an ascetic.
आह पुत्रांस्ततः सोऽथ स्त्रीभूतः पार्थिवोत्तमः। सम्प्रीत्या भुज्यतां राज्यं वनं यास्यामि पुत्रकाः॥