12. This cholic pain is not removed from the hearts of men by any medicine, so I have come out in search of the mantra revealed to her for its cure.
13. It is my business and professed duty, to persecute such wicked beings as thyself, that infest our ignorant subjects in this manner, and this is all that I have to tell thee and do in this place.
14. Therefore, O good lady! do thou promise to me in thy own words, that thou shalt never injure any living being in future.
15. The Rákshasí replied:—Well! I tell thee in truth, my lord! that I shall hence forward never kill any body.
16. The prince replied:—If it be so O thou liver on animal flesh! tell me how shalt thou support thy body by thy abstaining from animal food?
17. The Rákshasí replied:—It is now passed six months, O prince! that I have risen from my entranced meditation, and fostered my desire for food, which I wholly renounce today.
18. I will again repair to the mountain top, and betake myself to my steadfast meditation, and sit there contented as long as I like, in the posture of an unmoving statue.
19. I will restrain myself by unshaken meditation until my death, and then I shall quit this body in its time with gladness. This is my resolution.
20. I tell you now, O prince! that until the end of this life and body of mine, I shall no more take away the life of any living being, and you may rely assured upon my word.
21. There is the mount Himalaya by name, standing in the heart of the northern region, and stretching in one sweep, from the eastern to western main.