And beholding a dreadful and trackless. forest, that son of the foremost of men, Ikşvāku's descendant, asked that best of ascetics.
स वनं घोरसंकाशं दृष्ट्वा नरवरात्मजः॥ अविप्रहतमैक्ष्वाकः पप्रच्छ मुनिपुङ्गवम्।