O fair-complexioned one, O best of women, I recited the very words of yours before that illustrious Rituparna. Hearing these words, which I had repeatedly uttered to them, neither king Rituparna, nor any one of his courtiers, said anything in reply.
श्रावितश्च मया वाक्यं त्वदीयं स महाजने। ऋतुपर्णो महाभागो यथोक्तं वरवर्णिनि॥ तच्छुत्वा नाब्रवीत् किंचिदृतुपर्णो नराधिपः। न च पारिषदः कश्चिद् भाष्यमाणो मयासकृत्॥