I shall now speak to the cat about his own liberation. Perhaps, now it would not be wrong to consider the cat an intelligent and learned enemy. Thus did that mouse, surrounded by foes, think.
हन्तास्मै सम्प्रवक्ष्यामि हेतुमात्माभिरक्षणे॥ अपीदानीमयं शत्रुः सङ्गत्या पण्डितो भवेत्।