निहन्मैनं दुरात्मानं यो ऽयम् अस्मान् न मन्यते ॥
न ह्य् अर्हत्य् एष सत्कारं नापि वृद्धक्रमं गुणैः ॥
हन्मैनं सह पुत्रेण दुराचारं नृपद्विषम् ॥
अयं हि सर्वान् आहूय सत्कृत्य च नराधिपान् ॥
गुणवद् भोजयित्वा च ततः पश्चाद् विनिन्दति ॥
nihanmainaṃ durātmānaṃ yo 'yam asmān na manyate ||
na hy arhaty eṣa satkāraṃ nāpi vṛddhakramaṃ guṇaiḥ ||
hanmainaṃ saha putreṇa durācāraṃ nṛpadviṣam ||
ayaṃ hi sarvān āhūya satkṛtya ca narādhipān ||
guṇavad bhojayitvā ca tataḥ paścād vinindati ||
The kings said: "Let us kill this evil-souled man, who counts us as nothing; he deserves neither honor nor respect for his years and virtues. Let us kill him together with his son -- vile of conduct, hater of kings; for he, having summoned all the lords and honored them, having feasted them splendidly, now afterward reviles us."
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Here resentment pushes toward killing the very host who arranged the gathering. It is telling that the guests, just honored and feasted, now plot to kill the man who invited them: anger tramples both the duty of a guest and gratitude for hospitality. Here one sees how fury erases all measure: wounded self-love is ready to kill over an imagined slight. So the text shows the ingratitude of the enraged; the plot to kill their host exposes the baseness of their anger.