Beside himself with anger he squeezed his hands, and addressing the king in a voice choked with tears, he said-'My father was killed by those wretches with a cruel contrivance. That act, however, do not pain me so keenly as this condition to which you have been reduced, O king, Listen to these words of mine which I swear by truth itself, O lord, and by all my acts of piety all my gifts, my religion and the religious merits I have won.
सच क्रोधसमाविष्टः पाणौ पाणिं निपीड्य च॥ बाष्पविह्वलया वाचा राजानमिदमब्रवीत्। पिता मे निहतः क्षुद्रैः सुनृशंसेन कर्मणा॥ न तथा तेन तप्यामि यथा राजंस्त्वयाऽद्य वै। शृणु चेदं वचो मह्यं सत्येन वदतः प्रभो॥ इष्टापूर्तेन दानेन धर्मेण सुकृतेन च।