एवं कृपणया बुद्ध्या शोचन्तमतदर्हणम् । ग्रहीतुं कृतधीरेनं भयनामाभ्यपद्यत ॥ २२ ॥
evam krpanaya buddhya socantam atad-arhanam grahitum krta-dhir enam bhaya-namabhyapadyata
- evam
- thus
- krpanaya
- by miserly
- buddhya
- intelligence
- socantam
- lamenting
- a-tat-arhanam
- on which he should not have lamented
- grahitum
- in order to arrest
- krta-dhih
- the determined King of the Yavanas
- enam
- him
- bhaya-nama
- whose name was fear
- abhyapadyata
- came there immediately.
Although King Puranjana should not have lamented over the fate of his wife and children, he nonetheless did so due to his miserly intelligence. In the meantime, Yavana-raja, whose name was fear itself, immediately drew near to arrest him.