Being comforted by those words, the highminded king Ila, stricken with distress in consequence of the destruction of his servants, poorly replied.
स राजा तेन वाक्येन प्रत्याश्वस्तो महामतिः। प्रत्युवाच शुभं वाक्यं दीनो भृत्यजनक्षयात्॥