All the duties of kingship enjoined by the Vedas, he gladly and devoutly performed. Everyday he made large offerings of various kinds and heard the best scriptures, read both the Vedas and the Puranas.

In all the holy places he had pools, ponds and wells dug, flower-gardens and lovely orchards laid out, and houses for the Brahmans and magnificent and marvellous temples for the gods built.

For every single sacrifice prescribed by the Vedas and the Puranas the king in his zeal performed a thousand.

There was no ambition for any reward in his heart; the king was a man of supreme wisdom and sagacity. The meritorious duties he performed in thought, word or deed, the wise king dedicated as a gift to Vasusdeva

One day the king mounted a gallant steed and making all preparations for the chase, went into the dense forest of the Vindhya range and killed many a graceful deer.

As he wandered in the woods, he spied a wild boar, showing amid the foliage like Rahu with the moon in his clutch; its orb too large to be contained in his mouth, yet in his fury he would not disgorge it.

Such, as I have said, was the beauty of the boar’s frightful tusks; its body too was enormous and bulky beyond measure. Grunting at the tramp of the horse and pricking up its ears, it watched with a startled look.