It is better that I should die then live, inasmuch as I have today, out of a desire for obtaining sovereignty, suffered my old preceptor to be slain, who was a Brahmana and a great Muni and who moreover had laid his weapons aside at the time.
ब्राह्मणं वृद्धमाचार्यं न्यस्तशस्त्रं महामुनिम्। घातयित्वाद्य राज्यार्थे मृतं श्रेयो न जीवितम्॥