A Brahmana, told me all this, at Hastinapur, in times gone by, about what Champaka had sung. I hold Renunciation, therefore, as the foremost of things.
इत्येद्धास्तिनपुरे ब्राह्मणेनोपवर्णितम्। शम्पाकेन पुरा मह्यं तस्मात् त्यागः परो मतः॥