Out of pity and love for you I refrain from slaying Madhu. Being thus accosted, that Raksasi, being pleased, got her sleeping husband, the night-ranger, up and said.
तव कारुण्यसौहार्दानिवृत्तोऽस्मि मधोर्वधात्। इत्युक्ता सा समुत्थाप्य प्रसुप्तं तं निशाचरम्॥ अब्रवीत्संप्रहृष्टेव राक्षसी सा पतिं वचः।