शोच्यानिमांस्त्वमधिकष्टदीनान् विष्ट्या निगृह्णन्निरनुग्रहोऽसि । जनस्य गोप्तास्मि विकत्थमानो न शोभसे वृद्धसभासु धृष्ट: ॥ ७ ॥
socyan imams tvam adhikasta-dinan vistya nigrhnan niranugraho ’si janasya goptasmi vikatthamano na sobhase vrddha-sabhasu dhrstah
- socyan
- lamentable
- iman
- all these
- tvam
- you
- adhi-kasta-dinan
- poor persons suffering more pains because of their poverty-stricken position
- vistya
- by force
- nigrhnan
- seizing
- niranugrahah asi
- you have no mercy in your heart
- janasya
- of the people in general
- gopta asmi
- I am the protector (king)
- vikatthamanah
- bragging
- na sobhase
- you do not look very good
- vrddha-sabhasu
- in the society of learned persons
- dhrstah
- simply impudent
It is a fact, however, that these innocent people carrying your palanquin without payment are certainly suffering due to this injustice. Their condition is very lamentable because you have forcibly engaged them in carrying your palanquin. This proves that you are cruel and unkind, yet due to false prestige you were thinking that you were protecting the citizens. This is ludicrous. You were such a fool that you could not have been adored as a great man in an assembly of persons advanced in knowledge.