"But, O Sudhanvan, I wish you to grant Virochana his life." Sudhanvan said: "Since, O Prahlada, you chose virtue and did not speak falsehood despite temptation, I grant your son the life so dear to you. Here then is your son Virochana, O Prahlada, restored to you by me. Yet he must wash my feet in the presence of the maiden Keshini." Vidura continued: "For these reasons, O king of kings, it does not befit you to speak falsehood for the sake of land. Having spoken untruth out of love for your son, O king, do not rush toward ruin together with all your children and counselors. The gods do not protect men by taking up staves, as herdsmen do; rather, upon those whom they wish to protect, they bestow wisdom. There is no doubt that a man's aims succeed in proportion to the attention he gives to righteousness and virtue. The Vedas never save a lying man who lives by falsehood from sin. On the contrary, they abandon him as he lies upon his deathbed, just as newly fledged birds abandon their nests.