When the monkeys, whose lives had well nigh departed out of them, had spoken these piteous words, the vulture, in solemn accents, with tears in his eyes, said to the monkeys,
इत्युक्तः करुणं वाक्यं वानरैस्त्यक्तजीवितैः। सवाष्पो वानरान् गृध्रः प्रत्युवाच महास्वनः॥