The country is ruined, the city is burnt by fire,-the foremost of elephants is dead, at all this the king grieves like others, little thinking that these impressions are all owing to ignorance and mistake.
हतो देशः पुरं दग्धं प्रधानः कुञ्जरो मृतः। लोकसाधारणेष्वेषु मिथ्याज्ञानेन तप्यते॥