कथं तापसयोर्वां च वासः प्रमदया सह॥ अधर्मचारिणौ पापौ कौ युवां मुनिदूषको। अहं वनमिदं दुर्गं विराधो नाम राक्षसः॥ चरामि सायुधो नित्यमृषिमांसानि भक्षयन्। इयं नारी वरारोहा मम भार्या भविष्यति॥ युवयोः पापयोश्चाहं पास्यामि रुधिरं मृधे।
kathaṃ tāpasayorvāṃ ca vāsaḥ pramadayā saha|| adharmacāriṇau pāpau kau yuvāṃ munidūṣako| ahaṃ vanamidaṃ durgaṃ virādho nāma rākṣasaḥ|| carāmi sāyudho nityamṛṣimāṃsāni bhakṣayan| iyaṃ nārī varārohā mama bhāryā bhaviṣyati|| yuvayoḥ pāpayoścāhaṃ pāsyāmi rudhiraṃ mṛdhe|
English Meaning
You wicked wretches, you imf.ous wights, who are you that bring disgrace upon ascetics? I am a Rākṣasa, Virādha by name. This forest is my fastness. Accoutred in arms, I range (here), feeding on the flesh of ascetics. This transcendentally beauteous one shall be my wife. And in battle I shall drink your blood, wretches that you are.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)