They frustrate their objects and spoil their oblations of Ghee; they do this only to spite the sacred fires carrying oblations to the celestials.
तेषामिष्टं हरन्त्येते निघ्नन्ति च महद्धविः। स्पर्धया हव्यवाहानां निघ्नन्त्येते हरन्ति च॥