Formerly, O long-armed one, in a sacred wood haunted by beasts and birds, there lived a truthful ascetic of a pure person.
पुरा किल महाबाहो तपस्वी सत्यवाञ्छुचिः। कस्मिश्चिंदभवत् पुण्ये वने रतमृगद्विजे॥