If this happens with the knowledge of the members thereof, they are themselves slain; when virtue, pierced by vice, makes an appeal to an assembly and the shaft (of vice) is not taken out, the members thereof are themselves pierced by it. In fact virtue kills them like a river destroying the trees growing upon its banks.
हन्यते प्रेक्षमाणानां हतास्तत्र सभासदः। विद्धो धर्मो ह्यधर्मेण सभां यत्र प्रपद्यते॥ न चास्य शल्यं कृन्तन्ति विद्धास्तत्र सभासदः। धर्म एतानारुजति यथा नद्यनुकूलजान्॥