Seeing the monarch stricken with grief and burning with sorrow on account of the death of his son, the Brahmana said to that king of very
पुत्रशोकाभिसंतप्तं राजानं शोकविह्वलम्। विषण्णमनसं दृष्ट्वा विप्रो वचनमब्रवीत्॥