It so came about that even the very robbers refused to eat the flesh of that vile man. Though cannibals, O king, they would not eat an ungrateful person.
दस्यवश्चापि नैच्छन्त तमत्तुं पापकारिणम्। क्रव्यादा अपि राजेन्द्र कृतघ्नं नोपभुञ्जते॥