Verse 6

⁶A greedy king is held to this rule: at the fords appointed for it, he may kill in the forest animals fit for sacrifice, and only as many as are needed. ⁷The man who knows this and does the work laid down for him is not smeared by that work, king of kings, because he knows. ⁸One who does his works otherwise, climbing on his own pride, is bound; fallen into the current of the strands, his good sense lost, he goes downward. ⁹There was ruin there among those whose bodies were pierced by arrows feathered in many colours, and their pain was more than men with pity in them could bear. ¹⁰Killing hares, boars, buffaloes, wild oxen, antelope and porcupine, those fit for sacrifice and others of many kinds, he came at last to weariness.