As she, fatigued with hunger and thirst, is quite unfit to wander about in that dreadful and dense forest, always haunted by fierce animals. Cfriend! having left her in that dreadful forest, the stupid king of the Nishadhas of little fortune thus remembered Damayanti, while he was living an unknown life in the house of that king.''
क्षुत्पिपासापरीताङ्गी दुष्करं यदि जीवति। श्वापदाचरिते नित्यं वने महति दारुणे॥ त्यक्ता तेनाल्पभाग्यन मन्दप्रज्ञेन मारिष। इत्येवं नैषधो राजा दमयन्तीमनुस्मरन्। अज्ञातवासं न्यवसद् राज्ञस्तस्य निवेशने॥