Verse 5

⁵For what reason did the king seize Kali on his march of conquest, that low sudra wearing the marks of a god among men, who struck the cow with his foot? Let it be told, greatly favoured one, if it has to do with the story of Krsna. ⁶Or rather, for the good who lick the honey of his lotus feet, what are other talks worth, which are worthless and a waste of life? ⁷Dear one, for men whose lives are short, mortals who want what does not die, the revered Death has been called here to the work of the slaughterer. ⁸No one dies so long as the ender sits here. For that very purpose the revered one was called by the highest sages: that in the world of men the nectar of speech that is Hari's play might be drunk.

⁹The lifetime of a dull man of dull understanding, whose years are few, is carried off by sleep at night and by useless work by day.