Shankha said "I am not angry with you nor have you injured me, O foremost of all persons conversant with duties. Your virtue, however, had deteriorated. I have saved you from that plight.
शङ्ख उवाच न कुप्ये तव धर्मज्ञ न त्वं दूषयसे ममा सुनिर्मलं कुलं ब्रह्मन्नस्मिञ्जगति विश्रुतम्। धर्मस्तु ते व्यतक्रान्तस्ततस्ते निष्कृतिः कृताः॥