Hearing of that excellent and wondrous boon the king became greatly delighted and said:-If you are pleased with me, O goddess, do you confer upon me this boon, that I may be for one month, a female gifted with wonderful beauty in the three worlds and for another month I may be a male.
तदद्भुततरं श्रुत्वा देव्या वरमनुत्तमम्॥ संप्रहृष्टमना भूत्वा राजा वाक्यमथाब्रवीत्। यदि देवि प्रसन्ना मे रूपेणाप्रतिमा भुवि॥ मासं स्त्रीत्वमुपासित्वा मासं स्यां पुरुषः पुनः।