इषुणाभिहतः केन कस्य वापकृतं मया। ऋषेहि न्यस्तदण्डस्य वने वन्येन जीवतः॥ कथं नु शस्त्रेण वधो मद्विधस्य विधीयते। जटाभारधरस्यैव वल्कलाजिनवाससः॥ को वधेन ममार्थी स्यात् किं वास्यापकृतं मया। एवं निष्फलमारब्धं केवलानर्थसंहितम्॥
iṣuṇābhihataḥ kena kasya vāpakṛtaṃ mayā| ṛṣehi nyastadaṇḍasya vane vanyena jīvataḥ|| kathaṃ nu śastreṇa vadho madvidhasya vidhīyate| jaṭābhāradharasyaiva valkalājinavāsasaḥ|| ko vadhena mamārthī syāt kiṃ vāsyāpakṛtaṃ mayā| evaṃ niṣphalamārabdhaṃ kevalānarthasaṃhitam||
English Meaning
By whom have I been wounded by this arrow? To whom have I done wrong? And how can the slaying of one like me bearing a load of matted locks, and wearing bark and deer-skin, who subsist on what the forest yields and never injures others, be sanctioned by the scriptures? Who can serve any purpose by slaying me? And how can I have injured such an one? Such a purposeless act cannot but end in evil.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)