Hearing these lamentations of all creatures that resounded through all the points of horizon, Devala thought of renouncing the religion of emancipation.
देवलस्तु वचः श्रुत्वा भूतानां करुणं तथा॥ दिशो दश व्याहरतां मोक्षं त्यक्तुं मनो दधे।