You are not now the lord of the Earth. Why then do you wish to make a gift of that over which you have no right? Why, O king, did you not then give us the Earth when we, observing the rules of honesty and desirous of the welfare of our family, begged you for our portion?
अनीश्वरश्च पृथिवी कथं त्वं दातुमिच्छसि। त्वयेयं पृथिवी राजन् किन्न दत्ता तदैव हि॥ धर्मतो याचमानानां प्रशमार्थं कुलस्य नः।