तौ राजपुत्रौ कात्स्न्येन धर्नामाख्यानमुत्तमम्। वाचोविधेयं तत्सर्वं कृत्वा काव्यमनिन्दितौ ॥ ऋषीणां च द्विजातीनां साधूनां च समागमे। यथोपदेशं तत्त्वज्ञौ जगतुः सुसमाहितौ ॥
tau rājaputrau kātsnyena dharnāmākhyānamuttamam| vācovidheyaṃ tatsarvaṃ kṛtvā kāvyamaninditau || ṛṣīṇāṃ ca dvijātīnāṃ sādhūnāṃ ca samāgame| yathopadeśaṃ tattvajñau jagatuḥ susamāhitau ||
English Meaning
Even as the reflection of the solar or the lunar disc resembles that disc; got by heart that excellent and moral story in its entirety; and those princes versed in the Fine arts, with a concentrated mind chanted it as they had learnt it, in the assemblies of ascetics and Brāhmaṇas and good men.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)