Nagananda 4.11

4.11

ārtta kaṇṭhagataprāṇaṃ parityaktaṃ svabandhubhiḥ /
trāye nainaṃ yadi tataḥ kaḥ śarīreṇa me guṇaḥ //

Jímútaváhana (dolefully).
If I do not protect this wretched one, who is at the very point of death, abandoned by his relations, then what good is there in my body? So I will go up to them.