When at last the king became a skeleton of bones, without any flesh, and covered with blood he wished to give up his whole body and, therefore, ascended the scale in which he had placed the flesh that he had previously cut off.
अस्थिभूतो यदा राजा निर्मासो रुधिरस्रवः। तुलां ततः समारूढः स्वं मांसक्षयमुत्सृजन्॥