One day, O foremost of Bharata's race, seeing the wide-extending and numberless branches of that tree and the circumference of his trunk, the sage Narada, approached and addressed him, saying,-O, you are delightful! O, you are charming! O foremost of trees, O Shalmali, I am always pleased to see you.
तस्य ता विपुला: शाखा दृष्ट्वा स्कन्धं च सर्वशः। अभिगम्याब्रवीदेनं नारदो भरतर्षभ॥ अहो नु रमणीयस्त्वमहो चासि मनोहरः। प्रीयामहे त्वया नित्यं तरुप्रवर शाल्मले॥