Devayani said: If you refuse to make me your wife, solicited by me as I do, O Kacha, (indeed I say) your knowledge will bear no fruits.
देवयान्युवाच यदि मां धर्मकामार्थे प्रत्याख्यास्यसि याचितः। ततः कच न ते विद्या सिद्धिमेषा गमिष्यति॥