Bhagavatapurana 4.23.3

4.23.3

ātmajeṣv ātmajāṃ nyasya virahād rudatīm iva /
prajāsu vimanaḥsv ekaḥ sa-dāro 'gāt tapo-vanam //

separation, to the care of his sons; while all his subjects stood dispirited, he with his queen, unattended, betook himself to a hermitage.

1—3. Maitreya said:—On a certain day, turning his attention upon himself, Prithu, (Vena's son) saw that he had grown very old; as the protector of his subjects he had himself improved and provided for the permanency of his gifts (beneficial institutions) to them; that he had provided for the maintenance of (all creatures), mobile and immobile, and given (full) support to the Dharma of the righteous; and that he had fulfilled the Lord's commission for which he had been born here; he entrusted the earth, like a daughter crying, for