Uttering a dreadful yell, and, as if making the earth tremble, he took Vaidehi on his waist, and, going a little distance, said, “O you wearing bark and matted locks, O you of feeble strength, that accompanied by your (common) wife, have entered the forest of Dandaka, bearing bows and arrows and scimitars, why, being ascetics, do you wish to associate with a (single) woman?
अङ्केनादाय वैदेहीमपक्रम्य तदाब्रवीत्। युवां जटाचीरधरौ सभायौं क्षीणजीवितौ॥ प्रविष्टौ दण्डकारण्यं शरचापासिपाणिनौ।