And following those marks he arrived at a brackish inaccessible, rough and dangerous place full of dry winds and leafless trees, covered with thorny plants and abounding in gravels, stumps and bushes: and there in a mountain cave he discovered his younger brother (lying) stupefied in the folds of that best of snakes.
स गत्वा तैस्तदा चिद्वैर्ददर्श गिरिगह्वरे। रूक्षमारुतभूयिष्ठे निष्पत्रदुमसंकुले।॥ ईरिणे निर्जले देशे कण्टकिदुमसंकुले। अश्मस्थाणुक्षुपाकीर्णे सुदुर्गे विषमोत्कटे। गृहीतं भुजगेन्द्रेण निश्चेष्टमनुजं तदा॥