Verse 23

दिनानि कतिचित्तत्र नीत्वा शोकपरीतधीः ।जहौ स्वदेशं संशुष्कपद्मं सर इवाण्डजः

In plain words

Having spent a few days there, his mind overcome with sorrow, he abandoned his native country, as a bird abandons a lake whose lotuses have withered.