While both the bird and the beast were thus disputing and while the kinsmen of the dead child sat listening to them, the great god Shankara, urged by his divine consort (Uma), arrived there with eyes bathed in tears of mercy.
तथा तयोर्विवदतोर्विज्ञानविदुषोईयोः। बान्धवानां स्थितानां चाप्युपातिष्ठत शङ्करः॥