Perceiving from the voice that it was charioteer Sumantra versed in good counsels, who was thus eulogising, the king rose up from his bed and thus addressed him:
स्तुवन्तं तं तदा सूतं सुमन्त्रं मन्त्रकोविदम्॥ प्रतिबुद्ध्य ततो राजा इदं वचनमब्रवीत्।