Sauti said: The best of snakes, Vasuki, hearing the curse of his mother, pondered over how to make it abortive.
सौतिरुवाच मातुः सकाशात्तं शापं श्रुत्वा वै पन्नगोत्तमः। वासुकिश्चिन्तयामास शापोऽयं न भवेत्कथम्॥