Hear, O Karna, this allegory of a crow that I will relate. Hearing this, you may do whatever you like, O you shorn of intelligence and the wretch of your family.
इमां काकोपमा कर्ण प्रोच्यमानां निबोध मे। श्रुत्वा यथेष्टं कुर्यास्त्वं निहीन कुलपांसन॥