If, O serpent, you think that when an evil deed is done the doer is not implicated therein, then there can be no cause in this matter: but having done this, you should surely be killed. What more do you think?
असत्यपि कृते कार्यं नेह पन्नग लिप्यते। तस्मान्नात्रैव हेतुः स्याद् वध्यः किं बहु मन्यसे॥