The Earth began to tremble, as the consequence of that act of truth which the monarch did. The king began to cut off the flesh from his sides from his arms, and from his thighs, and quickly fill one of the scales for weighing it against the pigeon. For all that, the pigeon continued to weigh heavier.
मही प्रचलिता चासीत् तस्य सत्येन कर्मणा। स राजा पार्श्वतश्चैव बाहुभ्यामूरुतश्च यत्॥ तानि मांसानि संच्छिद्य तुलां पूरयतेऽशनैः। तथापि च समस्तेन कपोतेन बभूव ह॥