O ruler of the Nishadhas! O foremost of men! ( you who are adding to my grief in this fearful wilderness infested by lions and tigers, of whom shall I, woeful and distressed with grief on your account, enquire whether you are sitting or lying down or staying or gone?
वने चास्मिन् महाघोरे सिंहव्याघ्रनिषेविते। शयानमुपविष्टं वा स्थितं वा निषधाधिय॥ प्रस्थितं वा नरश्रेष्ठ मम शोकविवर्धन। कं नु पृच्छामि दुःखार्ता त्वदर्थे शोककर्शिता॥