O king, why do you, abandoning the wealth which is the source of both virtue and pleasures and in obedience of the (mere) trifling virtue of keeping one's promise, suffer such afflictions?
धर्मलेशप्रतिच्छन्नः प्रभवंधर्मकामयोः। अर्थमुत्सृज्य किं राजन् दुःखेषु परितप्यसे॥