The Rishi Agastya, while engaged in a (great) sacrifice, hunted, he deer in the great forest and offered every one of them to the celestial. Agastya performed the Homa with the fat of the deer. You have been killed according to such precedents. Why then do you reprove me?
अगस्त्यः सत्रमासीनश्चकार मृगयामृषिः। आरण्यान् सर्वदेवेभ्यो मृगान् प्रेषन् महावने॥ प्रमाणदृष्टधर्मेण कथमस्मान् विगर्हसे। अगस्त्यस्याभिचारेण युष्माकं विहितो वधः॥