Then Ruru, the possessor of six attributes, cheering up the snake, said to it, “Who are you, tell me, O snake, that have been thus metamorphosed?”
उवाच चैनं भगवान् रुरुः संशमयन्निव। कामं मां भुजग ब्रूहि कोऽसीमां विक्रियां गतः॥