पापमाचरतां घोरं लोकस्याप्रियमिच्छताम्। अहमासादितो राज्ञा प्राणान् हन्तुं निशाचर ॥
pāpamācaratāṃ ghoraṃ lokasyāpriyamicchatām| ahamāsādito rājñā prāṇān hantuṃ niśācara ||
English Meaning
O ranger of the night, it is to take the lives of the perpetrators of dreadful sins, who wish ill to men, that I the king have come.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)