The high-souled men, learned in the precepts that should be adopted in distress and danger, formerly said that one should never perform a cruel and censurable act. It is best for me that I should myself perish to day with my wife. I shall never cause the death of a Brahmana.
कुर्यान्न निन्दितं कर्म न नृशंसं कथंचन। इति पूर्वे महात्मान आपद्धर्मविदो विदुः॥ श्रेयांस्तु सहदारस्य विनाशोऽद्य मम स्वयम्। ब्राह्मणस्य वधं नाहमनुमंस्ये कदाचन॥