Also what maiden would not accept Nala as her lord, who is endued with all (excellent) qualities, who is acquainted with all systems of religion, who is a strict observer of vows, who has studied the four Vedas as also the Puranas that are styled the fifth; in whose house the deities are always satisfied by Sacrifices performed in accordance with the rules prescribed for their observance; who never docs any harm to any one, who is truthful and of unshaken vows; in whom truthfulness, forgiveness, knowledge, rigid austerities, purity, self-control and quiescence are ever present; who is the foremost of kings, like the guardians of the worlds. O Kali, that foolish creature, that desires to imprecate Nala of this description, does surely curse his own self and does kill himself by his own agency.
का च सर्वगुणोपेतं नाश्रयेत नलं नृपम्। यो वेदधर्मानखिलान् यथावच्चरितव्रतः॥ योऽधीते चतुरो वेदान् सर्वानाख्यानपञ्चमान्। नित्यं तृप्ता गृहे यस्य देवा यज्ञेषुधर्मतः। अहिंसानिरतो यश्च सत्यवादी दृढव्रतः॥ यस्मिन् दाक्ष्यंधृतिर्ज्ञानं तपः शौचं दमः शमः। ध्रुवाणि पुरुषव्याने लोकपालसमे नृपे॥ एवंरूपं नलं यो वै कामयेच्छपितुं कले। आत्मानं स शपेन्मूढो हन्यादात्मानमात्मना॥