यो अद्य स्तेन आयत्य् अघायुर् मर्त्यो रिपुः । रात्री तस्य प्रतीत्य प्र ग्रीवाः प्र शिरो हनत् ॥९॥
yo adya stena āyaty aghāyur martyo ripuḥ | rātrī tasya pratītya pra grīvāḥ pra śiro hanat ||9||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
What thief shall come today, [what] malicious mortal villain, may night, going to meet him, smite away the neck, ⌊away⌋ the head of him;—
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)