Verse 14

¹⁴Trembling, seeing him with his weapon raised, the earth became a cow and fled in fear, as a doe flees when the hunter drives her. ¹⁵Vena's son ran after her, angry, his eyes gone very red, fitting the arrow to his bow wherever she fled. ¹⁶Running through the quarters and the corners, through heaven and earth and the space between them, everywhere the goddess looked she saw him behind her with his weapon raised. ¹⁷In the world she found no rescue from Vena's son, as living things find none from death. Terrified, she turned back then with her heart burning. ¹⁸And she said to that greatly favoured one: You know dharma, you are tender to those in trouble. Save me too. You are set here to guard living beings.

¹⁹Why do you want to kill me, wretched and guilty of nothing? How could a man held to know dharma strike a woman? ²⁰Even beasts do not strike at women, not even at women who have done wrong. How much less men like you, king, who are kind and tender to the wretched. ²¹If you break me apart, the boat that does not age, on which everything stands, how will you hold yourself and these people up on the water?