For serving this object, punishment assumes the form of a Kshatriya among men. Protecting men he remains awake, always careful and never decaying.
एवं प्रयोजनश्चैव दण्डः क्षत्रियतां गतः। रक्षन् प्रजाः स जागर्ति नित्यं स्ववहितोऽक्षरः॥