Then the poet said, "As you have promised me your head, why not give me your body also? Why should not this body also come with me?" The Raja agreed and left with the poet, the poet first and the Raja behind him; and thus he was brought alive to the camp of the emperor. And there was great excitement, and in order to satisfy his vanity the emperor asked the Raja to come into the court where all the nobles were gathered. After the poet had brought the Raja into the court, the emperor looked at him, at that enemy with whom he had been at war for so many years, and he said, "You have come after all, after so many years, but it does not seem that your pride is gone, for you do not think even now of bowing before me!" The Raja answered, "Who should bow, a dead person?"