The Woman said: O sage-like Brahmana, O you who are possessed of the wealth of asceticism, do not consider that I am the female crane. Wrathful as you are, what will you do to me by this your wrathful look? Really I never disrespect the Brahmanas, who are like the celestials themselves, possessed of great energy.
स्त्र्युवाच नाहं बलाका विप्रर्षे त्यज क्रोधं तपोधन॥ अनया क्रुद्धया दृष्ट्या क्रुद्धः किं मां करिष्यसि। नावजानाम्यहं विप्रान् देवैस्तुल्यान् मनस्विनः॥