The sage began to reflect, aside,-What is best for me to do now?-Indeed, O best of kings, he then thought oniy of the means by which he could avoid immediate death.
स चिन्तयामास मुनिः किं नु मे सुकृतं भवेत्। कथं वृथा न मृत्युः स्यादिति पार्थिवसत्तम॥