I then presented according to due rites and with proper devotion, those two cows to a poor Brahmana living by picking solitary grains. Having formerly accepted the gift from my companion, I wish, O lord, even here, to give him in return twice the reward. The circumstances being such, O foremost of men, who amongst us two shall be innocent and who guilty?
ते चोच्छवृत्तये राजन् मया समपवर्जिते। यथाविधि यथाश्रद्धं तदस्याहं पुनः प्रभो॥ इहाद्यैव गृहीत्वा तु प्रयच्छे द्विगुणं फलम्। एवं स्यात् पुरुषव्याघ्र कः शुद्धः कोऽत्र दोषवान्।।९६।