Verse 38

³⁸Whom else should I take my pleasure with but you? Another man knows nothing of pleasure, has no skill, faces no life to come, and cannot see as far as tomorrow: a beast. ³⁹Here is dharma, and wealth and desire, and the joy of children, and what does not die, and fame; here are worlds without grief and without stain, worlds the solitary do not know. ⁴⁰They say that the household stage is the shelter in this becoming that keeps safe the fathers, the gods, the sages, men, all beings, and one's own self. ⁴¹Hero, what woman like me would not choose a husband like you, well known, generous, good to look at, dear to her and come to her?

⁴²Great-armed one, whose mind on this earth would not cling to your two arms, coiled like the body of a snake, when you go about to take away with a merciful glance and a lifted smile the trouble lying on those who have no one? ⁴³So the two of them, husband and wife, having made their agreement there between themselves, entered the city, king, and took their pleasure for a hundred years.