He ruled his kingdom piously and protected and maintained all his subject. Every day, however, the king, seeing his priest on the occasion of receiving benedictions from him as also of the performance of religious and other sacred rites, smiled or laughed loudly. In this way, O king, the reborn Shudra who had become a king, laughed at seeing his priest on numberless occasions.
राज्यं शशास धर्मेण प्रजाश्च परिपालयन्॥ पुण्याहवाचने नित्यं धर्मकार्येषु चासकृत्। उत्स्मयन् प्राहसच्चापि दृष्ट्वा राजा पुरोहितम्॥ एवं स बहुशो राजन् पुरोधसमुपाहसत्।