According to the story of Nala-Damayanti of Mahabharata, after the disappearance of king Nala, his queen Damayanti and her father's (the father-in-law of king Nala, the king of Vidarbha Kingdom) courtiers sent out a search party to find him. One of the courtiers reported a person "resembling in behaviour, but not in features" with Nala in king Rituparna's court in Ayodhya. To test this fact it was proclaimed that Queen Damayanti (known for her beauty) had assented to re-marry, and consequently an invitation to a swayamvara for the same was sent to Rituparna's court too. However the swayamvara ( a ritual wherein a princess bride choses her own suitor for marriage from among a group of suitors), was scheduled for the very next day, and the distance to her father's kingdom from Ayodhya could not be covered in a night. For this Nala as Bahuk offered to transport king Rituparna to Damayanti's kingdom.
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