O rulers of men, O king, when the royal sage Brihadashva was about to go away into the forest, that best of Brahmanas, Uttanka, heard of it.
अथ शुश्राव राजर्षि तमुत्तको नराधिप। वनं सम्प्रस्थितं राजन् बृहदश्वं द्विजोत्तमः॥