Madhu Kaitabha said: foremost of Purushas, we have never before spoken an untruth, not even in joke, what to speak of the other occasions? Know that we are always firm in truth and morality.
मधुकैटभावूचतुः अनृतं नोक्तपूर्वं नौ स्वैरेष्वपि कुतोऽन्यथा। सत्ये धर्मे च निरतौ विद्ध्यावां पुरुषोत्तम॥