Gopalacampu 1.10.54

1.10.54

[50] atra tatra jigamiṣann eva samiṣa-śliṣṭatāviśiṣṭaṃ kūṭa-śabdaṃ paṭhitavān | [51] atha samuddaṇḍa-daṇḍa-varaṇḍa-sakhi-maṇḍala-maṇḍitaḥ puṇḍarīka-locanas taṃ jānann apy ajānann iva tasya tuṇḍa-sannidhim eva gamane' vadhiñcakāra | sparśa-viṣa-viṣadhara-viśeṣa-kumāraḥ kautukātireka-vaśād bhekasyeva |

Here, while merely wishing to go there, he uttered the word kūṭa endowed with a double entendre of deceit. Then, adorned by the circle of his friends carrying raised stout sticks, the lotus-eyed one, though knowing him, made his beak's vicinity the limit of his approach as if not knowing him, just as a young boy, out of intense curiosity, might approach an extraordinarily venomous serpent whose touch is poison, as if it were a frog.