You wicked wretches, you imf.ous wights, who are you that bring disgrace upon ascetics? I am a Rākṣasa, Virādha by name. This forest is my fastness. Accoutred in arms, I range (here), feeding on the flesh of ascetics. This transcendentally beauteous one shall be my wife. And in battle I shall drink your blood, wretches that you are.
कथं तापसयोर्वां च वासः प्रमदया सह॥ अधर्मचारिणौ पापौ कौ युवां मुनिदूषको। अहं वनमिदं दुर्गं विराधो नाम राक्षसः॥ चरामि सायुधो नित्यमृषिमांसानि भक्षयन्। इयं नारी वरारोहा मम भार्या भविष्यति॥ युवयोः पापयोश्चाहं पास्यामि रुधिरं मृधे।