Verse 26

²²Sounded out in this way, king, by a sage who already knew, he bowed low in respect and, wanting a child, then said to the sage: ²³Revered one, what is not known to yogins whose guilt is broken, by their austerity and knowledge and gathering of mind, outside embodied beings or within them? ²⁴Still, since you ask, brahmin, I will say what has been turning in me, though you know it already, being set on to it by your own leave. ²⁵The riches of empire and mastery, which even the world's guardians pray for, do not gladden me, who have no child, any more than other things gladden a man who wants food and water. ²⁶So save me, greatly favoured one, from the dark my fathers have gone into with me. Bring it about for us that by a child we may cross what cannot be crossed.