Sauti said: Hearing those words of the snake and seeing that the snake was really of the Dundubha kind and that it was terribly frightened. Ruru did not kill it, thinking that it is a Rishi.
सौतिरुवाच इति श्रुत्वा वचस्तस्य भुजगस्य रुरुस्तदा। नावधीद्भयसंविग्नमृर्षि मत्वाऽथ डुण्डुभम्॥