Your Honour, therefore, should live here as if in your own house (Make yourself quite at home here). Upon hearing this, the deer was delighted and having eaten at pleasure and drunk water sat in the shade of a tree that grew near the water. Now Manthara asked - Friend deer, by whom were you frightened in this desolate wood? What, are there huntsmen roaming about? The deer replied. In the country of Kalinga there is a king, Rukmangada by name. In the courses of his conquest of the quarters he has come here and stays on the bank of the Chandrabhaga with his army encamped there. And a rumour is heard from the mouth of sportsmen that tomorrow he is sure to come and take his residence near the Karpura lake. So having regard to the fact that our residence here tomorrow is beset with danger, do what the time demands. Hearing that the tortoise said in terror - I will make for another pool. The crow and the deer, too, said - Let it be so. Then Hiranyaka said smilingly - It will be all well with Manthara when another lake is reached, but what means of protection has he while crawling along the ground? For, Water is the greatest strength of aquatic animals, a fortress of those who habitually reside in fortresses, their own ground of beasts and other animals, and a minister of kings.