Stricken with fear, his face reddened with the blushes of shame, and his heart filled with anxiety caused by that act of theft which he had tried, he answered, saying,-Oh you long-lived one, I am Vishvamitra! I have come here suffering from hunger. O you of righteous soul, do not kill me, if your vision be clear!
विश्वामित्रस्ततो भीतः सहसा तमुवाच ह। तत्र व्रीडाकुलमुखः सोद्वेगस्तेन कर्मणा॥ विश्वामित्रोऽहमायुष्मन्नागतोऽहं बुभुक्षितः। मा वधीर्मम सबुद्धे यदि सम्यक् प्रपश्यसि॥