Having said these words to his father, and firmly resolved upon what he had said, he went to the great forest and began to practise the austerest of penances.
एवमुक्त्वा स पितरं प्रतस्थे कृतनिश्चयः। ततो गत्वा महारण्यमतपत् सुमहत् तपः॥