Hearing his piteous words, I ever anxious to follow virtue, was exceedingly pained, and the bow with its arrow fixed fell down from my hand to the earth.
यथैव गुरुतल्पगम्। तां गिरं करुणं श्रुत्वा मम धर्मानुकाक्षिणः॥ कराभ्यां सशरं चापं व्यथितस्यापतद् भुवि। तस्याहं करुणं श्रुत्वा ऋषेर्विलपतो निशि॥ सम्भ्रान्तः शोकवेगेन भृशमासं विचेतनः।