Verse 19

¹⁴Hearing what she had said, Kamsa was struck with the greatest wonder; and he loosed Devaki and Vasudeva, and spoke to them humbly. ¹⁵Oh, my sister, oh, my sister's husband: by me, sinner that I am, many sons of yours have been killed, as an eater of men kills his own young. ¹⁶I, who have thrown pity away, who have thrown away my kinsmen and my friends, wretch that I am: to what worlds shall I go, like a killer of brahmins, dead while I still breathe? ¹⁷Fate too speaks untruth; it is not mortals only. Trusting it, I, a sinner, killed my sister's children. ¹⁸Do not grieve for your sons, greatly favoured ones: they eat what they themselves have made. Living things, being under fate, do not always sit together in one place.

¹⁹As things made of earth come and go upon the earth, so this self does not turn about among them, just as the earth does not.