परमं खलु ते वीर्यं दृश्यते राक्षसाधम। विश्राव्य नामधेयं हि युद्धे नास्मि जिता त्वया॥ ईदृशं गर्हितं कर्म कथं कृत्वा न लज्जसे। स्त्रियाश्चाहरणं नीच रहिते च परस्य च ॥
paramaṃ khalu te vīryaṃ dṛśyate rākṣasādhama| viśrāvya nāmadheyaṃ hi yuddhe nāsmi jitā tvayā|| īdṛśaṃ garhitaṃ karma kathaṃ kṛtvā na lajjase| striyāścāharaṇaṃ nīca rahite ca parasya ca ||
English Meaning
Great, forsooth, is found to be your might, you vilest of Rākşasas, in that you have carried me off; by simply declaring your name, but have not won me in war. Why do you not, O execrable one, take shame to yourself, having perpetrated such a heinous act-having carried off another's wife in the absence of her husband?
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)