O best among the men, it was summer and I spent that night in that hermitage. Next morning leaving my bed I arrived at the banks of the pond and saw a plump dead body in the waters. None of its limbs was pale and its beauty was not spoiled.
तत्राहमवसं रात्रि नैदाघी पुरुषर्षभ।७।। प्रभाते काल्यमुत्थाय सरस्तदुपचक्रमे। अथापश्यं शवं तत्र सुपुष्टमरजः क्वचित्॥ तिष्ठन्तं परया लक्ष्या तस्मिंस्तोयाशये नृप।