But that royal sage had no son and therefore that high-souled and greatly vow-observing king made over to his ministers the duties of the state and went to live in the forest.
अनपत्यस्तु राजर्षिः स महात्मा महाव्रतः। मन्त्रिष्वाधाय तद् राज्यं वननित्यो बभूव ह॥