तत्राथ शुश्राव सुहृद्विनष्टिं वनं यथा वेणुजवह्निसंश्रयम् । संस्पर्धया दग्धमथानुशोचन् सरस्वतीं प्रत्यगियाय तूष्णीम् ॥ २१ ॥
tatratha susrava suhrd-vinastim vanam yatha venuja-vahni-samsrayam samspardhaya dagdham athanusocan sarasvatim pratyag iyaya tusnim
- tatra
- there
- atha
- thereafter
- susrava
- heard
- suhrt
- kinsmen
- vinastim
- all dead
- vanam
- forest
- yatha
- as much as
- venuja-vahni
- fire due to the bamboos
- samsrayam
- friction with one another
- samspardhaya
- by violent passion
- dagdham
- burnt
- atha
- thus
- anusocan
- thinking
- sarasvatim
- the River Sarasvati
- pratyak
- westward
- iyaya
- went
- tusnim
- silently.
At the place of pilgrimage at Prabhasa, it came to his knowledge that all his relatives had died due to violent passion, just as an entire forest burns due to fire produced by the friction of bamboos. After this he proceeded west, where the River Sarasvati flows.