न क्वचित् साधु मन्येत नेमं तथानुशोचामि जीवितक्षयमात्मनः॥ मातरं पितरं चोभावनुशोचामि मद्वधे। तदेतन्मिथुनं वृद्धं चिरकालभृतं मया॥ मयि पञ्चत्वमापन्ने कां वृत्तिं वर्तयिष्यति। वृद्धौ च मातापितरावहं चैकेषुणा हतः॥ केन स्म निहताः सर्वे सुबालेनाकृतात्मना।
na kvacit sādhu manyeta nemaṃ tathānuśocāmi jīvitakṣayamātmanaḥ|| mātaraṃ pitaraṃ cobhāvanuśocāmi madvadhe| tadetanmithunaṃ vṛddhaṃ cirakālabhṛtaṃ mayā|| mayi pañcatvamāpanne kāṃ vṛttiṃ vartayiṣyati| vṛddhau ca mātāpitarāvahaṃ caikeṣuṇā hataḥ|| kena sma nihatāḥ sarve subālenākṛtātmanā|
English Meaning
This can never be reckoned as righteous even like to violating the chastity of a preceptor's wife. I do not so much lament my end as I lament it on account of my father and mother. To what will the old couple, who have ever been maintained by me, betake themselves when I am gone? My father and mother are old, and I their only son is slain. What boy is it of uncontrolled senses that has killed us all?
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)