Hearing your answer, we shall do what is needed for removing your fear.” Thus addressed the god, having the hare for his mark, replied to them and informed them of the cause of the curse and of the phthisis with which he was attacked.
श्रुत्वा तु वचनं त्वत्तो विधास्यामस्ततो वयम्। एवमुक्तः प्रत्युवाच सर्वांस्ताशशलक्षणः॥ शापस्य लक्षणं चैव यक्ष्माणं च तथाऽऽत्मनः। देवास्तथा वचः श्रुत्वा गत्वा दक्षमथाब्रुवन्॥