I offer you, o great ascetic, with a thousand gold coins, this excellent elephant, called the destroyer of foes, which had been bestowed upon me by my maternal uncle.
नागः शत्रुजयो नाम मातुलोयं ददौ मम। तं ते निष्कसहस्रेण ददामि द्विजपुङ्गव॥