Agni Purana 8.9

8.9

tvanmatāt preṣayiṣyāmi vicinvantu ca jānakīm /
pūrvādau māsamāyāntu māsādūrdhvaṃ nihanmi tān //

With your approval, I shall dispatch them; let them search for the daughter of Janaka.
Let them return within a month from the east and other quarters; after a month, I shall kill them.”