Declare, O holy men, the way

This plague to expiate and stay.”

Those best of Bráhmans shall reply:

“By every art, O Monarch, try

Hither to bring Vibháṇdak's child,

Persuaded, captured, or beguiled.

And when the boy is hither led

To him thy daughter duly wed.”

But how to bring that wondrous boy

His troubled thoughts will long employ,