Sauti said. The ministers, seeing their king in the coils of Takshaka, became pale with fear and they wept in great grief.
सौतिरुवाच ते तथा मन्त्रिणो दृष्ट्वा भोगेन परिवेष्टितम्। विषण्णवदनाः सर्वे रुरुदुर्भृशदुःखिताः॥