युद्धे कापुरुषैनित्यं भवद्भिः प्रियवादिभिः। राजानमनुगच्छद्भिः सर्वं कृत्यं विनाशितम्॥ राजशेषा कृता लङ्का क्षीणः कोशो बलं हतम्। राजानमिममासाद्य सुहृच्चिह्नममित्रकम्॥
yuddhe kāpuruṣainityaṃ bhavadbhiḥ priyavādibhiḥ| rājānamanugacchadbhiḥ sarvaṃ kṛtyaṃ vināśitam|| rājaśeṣā kṛtā laṅkā kṣīṇaḥ kośo balaṃ hatam| rājānamimamāsādya suhṛccihnamamitrakam||
English Meaning
All the affairs of the monarch have been wrecked by you-cravens in fight, sleek-tongued, following the king (fawning) you have made Lankā contain only the king, the treasury is lean; and the forces have been slain. By the king you have done like foes in the guise of friends.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)