O best of kings, be propitious to me, liberate my husband.” While she was thus crying, the king like a cruel wretch devoured her husband as a lion devours a deer. The tears that fell from eyes on the ground on account of her anger.
प्रसीद नृपतिश्रेष्ठ भर्तायं मे विसृज्यताम्। एवं विक्रोशमानायास्तस्यास्तु स नृशंसवत्॥ भर्तारं भक्षयामास व्याघ्रो मृगमिवेप्सितम्। तस्याः क्रोधाभिभूताया यान्यश्रूण्यपतन भुवि॥