Virata said Surely shall I kill him who may do wrong to you. Should he be a Brahmin I shall banish him from my kingdom. Let my assembled subjects hear, Kanka, is as much lord of this my dominion as I myself.
विराट उवाच हन्यामवश्यं यदि तेऽप्रियं चरेत् प्रव्राजयेयं विषयाद् द्विजांस्तथा। शृण्वन्तु में जानपदा: समागताः कङ्को यथाहं विषये प्रभुस्तथा॥