Thereupon greatly exhausted the crow came up to the swan. Thereupon beholding him about to sink and with a view to rescue him the swan, remembering the good offices of the pious, said to him-
ततः काको भृषं श्रान्तो हंसमभ्यागमत्तदा॥ तं तथा हीयमानं तु हंसो दृष्ट्वाब्रवीदिदम्। उजिहीर्षुर्निमज्जन्त स्मरन् सत्पुरुषव्रतम्॥