If this your virtue, the aid of which you now solicit, was no where on all those Occasions what is the use of drying up your tongue by uttering that word? You now wish to practise virtue, O Suta, but you shall not escape with your life.
यद्येष धर्मस्तत्र न विद्यते हि किं सर्वथा तालुविशोषणेन। अद्येह धाणि विधत्स्व सूत तथापि जीवन विमोक्ष्यसे हि॥