मनुरुवाच अलं वत्सातिरोषेण तमोद्वारेण पाप्मना । येन पुण्यजनानेतानवधीस्त्वमनागस: ॥ ७ ॥
manur uvaca alam vatsatirosena tamo-dvarena papmana yena punya-janan etan avadhis tvam anagasah
- manuh uvaca
- Manu said
- alam
- enough
- vatsa
- my dear boy
- atirosena
- with excessive anger
- tamah-dvarena
- the path of ignorance
- papmana
- sinful
- yena
- by which
- punya-janan
- the Yaksas
- etan
- all these
- avadhih
- you have killed
- tvam
- you
- anagasah
- offenseless.
Lord Manu said: My dear son, please stop. It is not good to become unnecessarily angry—it is the path to hellish life. Now you are going beyond the limit by killing Yaksas who are actually not offenders.