Do you know this, O Rama! Cease, to kill the Kshatriyas! Do you practise the austerest of penances! You will then attain to what is good.
इति त्वमनुजानीहि राम मा क्षत्रियान् जहि। तपो घोरमुपातिष्ठ ततः श्रेयोऽभिपत्स्यसे॥