And with his eyes coppery with rage, the king asked his foreniost counsellor Prahasta, in words fraught with sense and suiting the season,
स राजा रोषताम्राक्षः प्रहस्तं मन्त्रिसत्तमम्। कालयुक्तमुवाचेदं वचो विपुलमर्थवत्॥