Sanskrit: बहूनामेमि प्रथमो  बहूनामेमि मध्यमः ।  किँ स्विद्यमस्य कर्तव्यं यन्मयाऽद्य करिष्यति  
English: 5  Among many I am the first; or among many I am the middlemost. But certainly I am never the last. What purpose of the King of Death will my father serve today by thus giving me away to him? 