5. The Bráhman being well seated, I picked up many discourses with him from the Vedánta, Sánkhya, and Siddhánta philosophy, and when his weariness was gone, I made this question to him, saying:—
6. Sir, you seem to be tired with your long journey to this place, please tell me, O eloquent sir, from where you have started here today.
7. The Bráhman replied:—so it is, O fortunate prince, I have taken great pains to come up to this place; and now hear me to tell you the reason, that brings me hither to you.
8. There is a district here, known by the name of Vaideha, it is equally populous as well as prosperous in all respects; and is a resemblance of its semblance of the heavenly paradise.
9. There I was born and educated, and held my residence at the same place; and named as Kundadanta from the whiteness of my teeth, bearing resemblance to the buds of Kunda flowers.
10. I resigned afterwards my worldly concerns, and betook myself to travel far and wide about this earth; and resorted to the asylums of holy sages and saints, and to the shrines of gods to rest from my fatigue.
11. I retired next to <a> sacred mountain, where I sat silent for a long period, practicing my devotional austerities.
12. There I found a desert, which was devoid of grassy pastures and woody trees; and where the light of the sun and the shade of night, reigned by turns, as it was the open sky on earth.
13. There is in the midst of it a branching tree, with little of its verdant leaves and leaf-lets; and the luminous sun dispensed his gentle beams, from the upper sky and through cooling foliage.
14. There hung suspended under one of its boughs, a man of a holy mien; who blazed as the resplendent sun pendent in the open air, by the cords of his wide extending beams and radiating rays.