O monarch, thus addressed by her, the Brahmana, Sudeva by name, started at once. He spoke to king Rituparna what he was ordered by her to do.
एवं तया यथोक्तो वै गत्वा राजानमब्रवीत्। ऋतुपर्ण महाराज सुदेवो ब्राह्मणस्तदा।॥