Hearing his speech in the midst of the saints, that best of those conversant with words, the lord of men, replied to the monarch, saying,
तस्य तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा ऋषिमध्ये नराधिपः॥ वाक्यं वाक्यविदां श्रेष्ठः प्रत्युवाच महीपतिम्।