Your own foremost of abodes is free from the pains of hunger and thirst and inhabited by both gods and Asuras, by Rishis of great splendour, as also by Gandharvas and Apsaras. Leaving such a spot of happiness, you live alone in this foremost of mountains. The cause of this cannot but be weighty.
किं नु तत्सदनं श्रेष्ठं क्षुत्पिपासाविवर्जितम्। सुरासुरैरध्युषितं ऋषिभिश्चरामितप्रभैः॥ गन्धर्वैरप्सरोभिश्च सततं संनिषेवितम्। उत्सृज्येम गिरिवरमेकाकी प्राप्तवानसि॥