Viashampayana said : Those mighty car-warriors, the foremost of the Bharata race, wandering like immortals in the forest of Kamyaka abounding in many deer, were pleased.

Beholding various wild tracts of country on all sides, the woodland decorated with the beautiful, blossming season flowers.

Those Indra-like Pandavas, fond of hunting and subdues of their enemies, lived there for some time wandering in that huge forest.

One day those men, those repressors of their enemies, wandered about on all sides, in search of game for feeding the Brahmanas who were with them, leaving Draupadi alone in the hermitage with the permission of Trinabindu the great ascetic of burning asceticism and their priest Dhaumya.

At that time the illustrious king of Sindhu, the son of Vriddhakshatra was, for marriage, going to the territory of Shalva,

Dressed in his best royal robe and accompanied by many princes he halted at the forest of Kamayaka.

In that solitary place he found the handsome Draupadi, the beloved and the illustrious wife of the Pandavas, standing at the threshold of the hermitage.

She appeared in her form having the most excellent beauty, shedding lustre on woodland like lightning illuminating masses of dark clouds.

(Thinking): “Is she an Apsara or the daughter of a god or a celestials phantom,” they all with joined hands, stood gazing on the perfect and faultless beauty of her person.

Seeing that lady of faultless feature, Jayadratha, the king of Sindhu, the son of Vriddhakshatra, possessed by evil intention.

Possessed by desire he said to the prince named Kotikasya, “Who is this lady of faultless feature? Is she a human being?

I do not desire to marry if I can secure this exquisitely beautiful lady. Taking her with me I shall go back to my house.

O gentle sir, go and enquire who she is and whence she has come and why she, of fine eyebrows, has come to this forest full of thorns.

was Will this most excellent beauty of the world, this slender-waisted lady, having beautiful teeth and large eyes, accept me as her lord?

I shall certainly consider myself successful if I can obtain this best of females. Go Kotika and learn who her husband is.” Hearing this Kotikasya, wearing a Kundala, jumped out of the car and approached her as a jackal comes near a tigress and spoke to her.