Asking me the cause and knowing the calamity that hangs over the town, that best of Bra' manas ga e me every assurance and spoke to me with smiles, “I shall today carry the food to that wicked-minded wretch. "Do not fear for me." He said this.
परिपृच्छ्य स मां पूर्वं परिक्लेशं पुरस्य च। अब्रवीद् ब्राह्मणश्रेष्ठो विश्वास्य प्रहसन्निव॥ प्रापयिष्याम्यहं तस्मा अन्मेतद् दुरात्मने। मन्निमित्तं भयं चापि न कार्यमिति चाब्रवीत्॥