Alas! We are involved in a great sin, in that we are prepared to kill our kinsmen, from greed for the pleasures of the kingdom.

aho = alas; bata = how strange it is; mahat = great; pāpaṃ = sins; kartuṃ = to perform; vyavāsitāḥ = have decided; vayaṃ = we; yat = because; rājyasukhalobhena = driven by greed for royal happiness; hantuṃ = to kill; svajanaṃ = kinsmen; udyatāḥ = trying.;