When that forest was thus afflicted on all sides and such distress came upon all the living creature living there, the king, who had taken no food, was incapable of moving or exerting himself at all.
समाविद्धे वने तस्मिन् प्राप्ते व्यसन उत्तमे। निराहारतया राजन् मन्दप्राणविचेष्टितः॥