If it pleases you, O king, hear what I say. And then having listened to it, the descendant of Prishata may take to his own wisdom.
यदि ते रोचते राजन् वक्ष्यामि शृणु मे वचः। श्रुत्वेदानीं प्रपद्येथाः स्वां मतिं पृषतात्मज॥