Bhojaprabandha 40

40

Then Buddhisāgara came forward and said: 'Just as you are the vilest of kings, so Vatsarāja is the vilest of ministers. King Sindhula, having indeed given you the kingdom, placed Bhoja upon your lap. And you, his paternal uncle, did otherwise.
'During youth, which lasts only a few days and intoxicates the mind, the wicked / commit such a transgression that their very birth becomes in vain. (36) / The virtuous consider the removal of a blade of grass from their head to be worth offering ten million pieces of gold; / but the wicked, even when benefited at the cost of life itself, harbor only hostility toward others. (40)'