In fixing moralities the men, learned in the precepts of virtue, have said that women should never be killed; and (they have also said that the Rakshasas are learned in the rules of morality. Therefore he (the Rakshasas) may not kill me.
अवध्यां स्त्रियमित्याहुर्धर्मज्ञा धर्मनिश्चये। धर्मज्ञान् राक्षसानाहुन हन्यात् स च मामपि॥