A tiger, well known for prowess, happened to overhear this conversation, and accordingly, taking the jackal for a learned person of pure conduct, offered him such respectful worship as became his own self and then expressed a desire for appointing him his minister.
तं शुचिं पण्डितं मत्वा शार्दूलः ख्यातविक्रमः। कृत्वाऽऽत्मसदृशीं पूजां साचिव्येऽवरयत् स्वयम्।।