The celestials saw Nala on the way walking on the earth. In beauty he resembled even the god of love himself in his embodied form.
अथ देवाः पथि नलं ददृशुर्भूतले स्थितम्। साक्षादिव स्थितं मूर्त्या मन्मथं रूपसम्पदा॥