And stricken with sorrow the king, O Bharata, went to the gate of the Ganges. Then sceking the shelter of the deity Virupaksha, the lord of Uma.
जगाम राजन् दुःखार्तो गङ्गाद्वाराय भारत। स देवं शरणं गत्वा विरूपाक्षमुमापितम्॥