Although besought by the subjects, the truthful Käkutstha having pledged his word to his father, kept on going to the forest.
स याच्यमानः काकुत्स्थस्ताभिः प्रकृतिभिस्तदा। कुर्वाणः पितरं सत्यं वनमेवान्वपद्यत॥