The king bent upon following an unrighteous course through the influence of a woman, should, the justice or otherwise of the measure being fully weighed, at the very outset have been checked.
पूर्वमेव तु विग्राह्यः समवेक्ष्य नयानयौ। उत्पथं यः समारूढो नार्या राजा वशं गतः॥