No sooner done this Act of Truth, out from the chest of Yanna-datta the poison came, and sank into the ground. The lad opened his eyes, and with a look at his parents, cried "Mother!" then turned over, and lay still. Then Black Dipayana said to the father, "See, I have used my power; now is the time to use yours." He answered, "So will I do an Act of Truth"; and laying a hand upon his son's breast, he repeated the second stanza:

"If for gifts I cared no jot,
All chance comers entertaining,
[32] Yet still the good and wise knew not
I was my true self restraining;
If unwillingly I give,
May this truth a blessing give,
Poison baulked, the lad revive!"

After the doing of this Act of Truth, out from his back came the poison, and sank into the ground. The lad sat up, but could not stand. Then the father said to the mother, "Lady, I have used my power; now it is yours by an Act of Truth to cause your son to arise and walk." Said she, "I too have a Truth to tell, but in your presence I cannot declare it." "Lady," quoth he, "by all and any means make my son whole." She answered, "Very well," and her Act of Truth is given in the third stanza:

"The serpent that bit thee to-day
In yonder hole, my son,
And this thy father, are, I say,
In my indifference, one:
May this Truth a blessing give:
Poison baulked, the lad revive!"

[33] No sooner done was this Act of Truth, than all the poison fell and sank into the ground; and Yanna-datta, rising with all his body purged of the poison, began to play. When the son had in this way risen up, Mandavya asked what was in Dipayana's mind by the fourth stanza:

"They leave the world who are serene, subdued,
Save Kanha, all in no unwilling mood;
What makes thee shrink, Dipayana, and why
Unwilling walk the path of sanctity?"

To answer this, the other repeated the fifth stanza:

"He leaves the world, and then again turns back;
"An idiot, a fool!" so might one think:--
'Tis this that makes me shrink,
Thus walk I holy, though the wish I lack,
The cause why I do well, is this--
Praised of the wise the good man's dwelling is."

Thus having explained his own thought, he asked Mandavya yet again in the sixth stanza:

[34]"This thy house was like a mere ,
Food and drink in store supplying:
Sages, travellers, brahmins here
Thirst and hunger satisfying.
Didst thou fear some scandal, still
Giving, yet against thy will?"

Then Mandavya explained his thoughts by the seventh stanza: