You should not, O thousandeyed one, advise me now to leave this tree for good. When it was capable of good, it supported my life. How can I leave it now? Pleased with these wellmeant words of the parrot, the virtuous destroyer of Paka, thus said to him:I am pleased with your humane and merciful disposition.
नार्हसे मां सहस्त्राक्ष दुमं त्याजयितुं चिरात्। समर्थमुपजीव्येमं त्यजेयं कथमद्य वै॥ तस्य वाक्येन सौम्येन हर्षित: पाकशासनः। शुकं प्रोवाच धर्मात्मा आनृशंस्येन तोषितः॥