Brihadhsava said: Thus repeatedly speaking unto Damayanti, used to all happiness, king Nala tried to console her, now clad only in half of her cloth. Both of them wrapped in a single piece of cloth, when wandering this way and that, arrived at an inn, worn out with hunger and thirst.
बृहदश्व उवाच इति ब्रुवन् नलो राजा दमयन्तीं पुनः पुनः। सान्त्वयामास कल्याणी वाससोऽर्धेन संवृताम्॥ तावेकवस्त्रसंवीतावटमानावितस्ततः। क्षुत्पिपासापरिश्रान्तौ सभां कांचिदुपेयतुः॥