Hitopdesh • Chapter 2 • Shloka 39
तदस्माकम् मित्रं हिरण्यको नाम मूषकराजो
गण्डकीतीरे चित्रवने निवसति । सोऽस्माकं पाशांश्छेत्स्यति ।
इत्यालोच्य सर्वे हिरण्यकविवरसमीपं गताः । हिरण्यकश्च
सर्वदापायशङ्कया शतद्वारं विवरं कृत्वा निवसति ।
ततो हिरण्यकः कपोतावपातभयाच्चकितस्तूष्णीं स्थितः ।
चित्रग्रीव उवाच -- सखे हिरण्यक किमस्मान्न सम्भाषसे ।
ततो हिरण्यकस्तद्वचनं प्रत्यभिज्ञाय
ससम्भ्रमं बहिर्निःसृत्याब्रवीत् --
आः पुण्यवानस्मि । प्रियसुहृन्मे चित्रग्रीवः समायातः ।
यस्य मित्रेण सम्भाषो यस्य मित्रेण संस्थितिः ।
यस्य मित्रेण संलापस्ततो नास्तीह पुण्यवान् ॥
Now our friend, Hiranyaka by name, the king of mice, dwells in Chitravana (a beautiful forest) on the bank of the Gandaki. He will cut off our bonds. Having thus deliberated, they all went to the hole of Hiranyaka. Hiranyaka, on his part, always apprehensive of danger, had made a burrow with a hundred passages and lived in it. Then Hiranyaka, startled with fear at the descent of the pigeons, stood silent. Chitragriva said - Dear Hiranyaka, why don't you talk to us? Then Hiranyaka, having recognised his voice, rushed out in haste and said - Ah, happy am I! my beloved friend Chitragriva has come. No one is more meritorious in this world than he, who talks with his friend, who lives with his friend and who holds a friendly discourse (or, chats) with his friend.
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