Thereupon from the spot whereto the sharpened shaft resembling a poisonous snake had been discharged by me in the twilight, proceeded cries of 'Oh' and 'Alas' uttered by a forester pierced to the quick by the arrow, and falling into the water. And when he had dropped down, words spoken by a human being became audible.
अमुञ्चं निशितं बाणमहमाशीविषोपमम्। तत्र वागुषसि व्यक्ता प्रादुरासीद् वनौकसः॥ हा हेति पततस्तोये बाणाद् व्यथितमर्मणः। तस्मिन्निपतिते भूमौ वागभूत् तत्र मानुषी॥