High-souled as you are, you are thinking that you shall, slaying me, be visited with a sin arising from the destruction of a female. But do you kill me, O son of a king, knowing me as the soul of Vali, and you shall not be responsible for destroying a woman.
यच्चापि मन्येत भवान् महात्मा स्त्रीघातदोषस्तु भवेन मह्यम्। आत्मेयमस्येति हि मां जहि त्वं न स्त्रीवधः स्यान्मनुजेन्द्रपुत्र ॥