Sauti said : Thus asked by the king, the ministers, the well-wishers of the king, told him everything as it had happened.
सांतिरुवाच एवं संचोदिता राज्ञा मन्त्रिणस्ते नराधिपम्। ऊचुः सर्वे यथावृत्तं राज्ञः प्रियहितैषिणः॥