Therefore, I say - 'He, whose intellect does not fail him etc.,' Karataka observed - Be it so. But how will it be possible to dissolve the great friendship that has grown up between them by the similarity of their dispositions? Damanaka replied - Let a remedy be applied. For it is said - What is possible to be accomplished by stratagem cannot be affected by exploits: a crow brought about the destruction of a black serpent by means of a gold chain.