 मिथिलोपवने शून्यमाश्रमं दृश्य राघव:।।पुराणं निर्जनं रम्यं पप्रच्छ मुनिपुङ्गवम्। 
 At the sight of an old uninhabited, beautiful and desolate hermitage in a grove near Mithila, the descendant of the Raghus enquired of the foremost among the ascetics Viswamitra 