Thus addressed, the exceedingly wise Bharata answered the lord of the Nişādas, in words fraught with sense and reason.
एवमुक्तस्तु भरतो निषादाधिपतिं गुहम्। प्रत्युवाच महाप्राज्ञो वाक्यं हेत्वर्थसंहितम्॥