That high-souled king devoted himself to the pursuits, enjoined in the Shastras; and one day, O king, that monarch was much afflicted with observing a fast.
शास्त्रदृष्टेन विधिना संयोज्यात्मानमात्मवान्। स कदाचिनृपो राजन्नुपवासेन दुःखितः॥