नोत्सहत्यमृतो मोक्तुं युद्धे त्वामिति मैथिलि। सामात्यस्य नृशंसस्य निश्चयो ह्येष वर्तते॥ तदेषां सुस्थिरा बुद्धिर्मृत्युलोभादुपस्थिता। भयान शक्तस्त्वां मोक्तुमनिरस्तः स संयुगे॥ राक्षसानां च सर्वेषामात्मनश्च वधेन हि।
notsahatyamṛto moktuṃ yuddhe tvāmiti maithili| sāmātyasya nṛśaṃsasya niścayo hyeṣa vartate|| tadeṣāṃ susthirā buddhirmṛtyulobhādupasthitā| bhayāna śaktastvāṃ moktumanirastaḥ sa saṃyuge|| rākṣasānāṃ ca sarveṣāmātmanaśca vadhena hi|
English Meaning
O Maithili, without renouncing his life in battle, he does not intend to liberate you. Even this is the determination which that cruel one has arrived at along with his advisers. This intent is in consequence of their coveting surcease. He can not yield you up from sheer fear; not is he backward in battle, or shirk his own destruction or that of all the Rākşasas.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)