Thus addressed by those twice-born persons, the mungoose, siniling, answered them as follows. “You twice-born ones, the words I have uttered are not false. Neither have I spoken them from pride.
इति पृष्टो द्विजैस्तैः स प्रहसन् नकुलोऽब्रवीत्। नैषा मृषा मया वाणी प्रोक्ता दर्पण वा द्विजाः॥