Even that celestial voice resounding in the skies reached the ears of the Maharsis living on the peaks of the Satasringa mountains. But now that voice comes to be untrue. It seems, therefore, that the gods too speak falsehood.
इत्यन्तरिक्षे शतशृङ्गमूर्ध्नि तपस्विनां शृण्वतां वागुवाच। एवंविधं तच नाभूत तथा च देवापि नूनमनृतं वदन्ति॥