While residing in that beautiful city of Kundina, that ruler of the earth saw nothing (no signs of the Svayamvara) there, although he looked about all again and again. Then, at last, the lord of the Vidharbhas presented himself before that monarch and welcomed him. O descendant of the Bharata race, Bhima asked him on what business he was pleased to come there; for, in the absence of a proper occasion, an illustrious personage can not be had.
स तत्र कुण्डिने रम्ये वसमानो महीपतिः। न च किंचित् तदापश्यत् प्रेक्षमाणो मुहुर्मुहुः। स तु राज्ञा समागम्य विदर्भपतिना तदा॥ अकस्मात् सहसा प्राप्तं स्त्रीमन्त्रं न स्म विन्दति। किं कार्यं स्वागतं तेऽस्तु राजा पृष्टः स भारत॥