Pity for them and love for me,

If thou, O rover of the night,

Have valour and with him can fight,

Subdue the giants' cruel foe

Who dwells where Daṇḍak's thickets grow.

But if thine arm in vain assay

This queller of his foes to slay,

Now surely here before thine eyes,

Wronged and ashamed thy sister dies.

Too well, alas, too well I see