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Valmiki's heart melted
On seeing, that bird felled that way by the tribal hunter compassion occasioned in that saintly sage Valmiki. Then on seeing the wailing female krounchi bird, out of the state of compassion and apperceiving the killing of male bird as unjust. Thus speaking and pondering in his heart, he became thoughtful: "What is this utterance by me in grief and anguish for this bird?" That great wise one who was an intellectual and the best among sages, on cogitating, made up his mind and spoke these words to the disciple. Then that saint on performing his bathing in that ford according to custom, and still thinking on the purport of his utterance, he returned towards his hermitage.