A wise men pierced by sharp arrows of words from another and blazing like the fire or the sun should, though wounded and burning with extreme pain, bear all with patience, remembering that the effects of the slanderer's good deeds become his own.
भृशं सुतीक्ष्णैरनलार्कदीप्तैः। स विध्यमानोऽप्यतिदह्यमानो विद्यात् कविः सुकृतं मे दधाति॥