Thus tasting the meat brought by her female servant, she decided the charioteer to be Nala himself; and, inuch aggrieved, she wept bitterly. Overtaken by great calamity, she then washed her face. O Bharata, thereafter she sent her two children with Keshini. Bahuka recognised Indrasena with her brother. Thereupon the monarch (in the guise of Bahuka) came up speedily and, embracing his children, placed them on his lap. Then again, embracing his children, who were like the children of the celestials, Bahuka became filled with the greatest misery and wept bitterly in a soft voice. Thus having cxprcsscd his mental derangement over and over again, the prince of the Nishadhas left the children all on a sudden and spoke Keshini there words,
प्राश्य मत्वा नलं सूतं प्राक्रोशद् भृशदुःखिता। वैक्लव्यं परमं गत्वा प्रक्षाल्य च मुखं ततः॥ मिथुनं प्रेषयामास केशिन्या सह भारत। इन्द्रसेनां सह भ्रात्रा समभिज्ञाय बाहुकः॥ अभिद्रुत्य ततो राजा परिष्वज्याङ्कमानयत्। बाहुकस्तु समासाद्य सुतौ सुरसुतोपमौ॥ भृशं दुःखपरीतात्मा सुस्वरं प्ररुरोद ह। नैषधो दर्शयित्वा तु विकारमसकृत् तदा। उत्सृज्य सहसा पुत्रौ केशिनीमिदमब्रवीत्॥