Meeting with him, the king addressed that best of all persons conversant with duties, saying,-Tell me, O reverend sir, why you have Know it is already accomplished.-Thus accosted, that Rishi said to Sudyumna,-Do you promise first that you will do it. You should then, after hearing me, fulfil that promise.
तमब्रवीत् समागम्य स राजा धर्मवित्तमम्। किमागमनमाचक्ष्व भगवन् कृतमेव तत्॥ एवमुक्तः स विप्रर्षिः सुद्युम्नमिदमब्रवीत्। प्रतिश्रुत्य करिष्येति श्रुत्वा तत् कर्तुमर्हसि॥