Ramayana
अजीवनार्हेण मया नृशंसा कृता प्रतिज्ञा नियमेन तावत् । तवया हि बाल्यात् प्रतिपन्नमेतत् तन्मां दहेद्वेणुमिवात्मपुष्पम् ॥ २-३८-७
By giving this cruel promise through importunity, I have rendered myself unfit to live. This promise was made as a child's play and it (now) destroys me like a bamboo destroyed by its own flowers. ॥ 2-38-7॥
english translation
ajIvanArheNa mayA nRzaMsA kRtA pratijJA niyamena tAvat । tavayA hi bAlyAt pratipannametat tanmAM dahedveNumivAtmapuSpam ॥ 2-38-7
hk transliteration by Sanscript