Bhishma said While those regenerate persons were thus thinking of the merit of the case, the royal sage Hotravahana came into that forest.
भीष्म उवाच इत्येवं तेषु विप्रेषु चिन्तयत्सु यथातथम्। राजर्षिस्तद् वनं प्राप्तस्तपस्वी होत्रवाहनः॥