न-आततायिवधे दोषो हन्तुर् भवति) कश् चन । प्रकाशं वा-अप्रकाशं वा मन्युस् तं मन्युम् ऋच्छति) ॥
na-ātatāyivadhe doṣo hantur bhavati) kaś cana | prakāśaṃ vā-aprakāśaṃ vā manyus taṃ manyum ṛcchati) ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
By killing an assassin the slayer incurs no guilt, whether (he does it) publicly or secretly; in that case fury recoils upon fury. » «j\ >. ni
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.