Remembering his former enmity and aggrandisement, I, being extremely wrathful, in my deer shape and with my sharpened horns, darted towards him with a view to kill him, considering through my ignorance the effulgent Rāma as none other but an ascetic living in the forest.
सोऽहं वनगतं रामं परिभूय महाबलम्। तापसोऽयमिति ज्ञात्वा पूर्ववैरमनुस्मरन्॥ अभ्यधावं सुसंक्रुद्धस्तीक्ष्णशृङ्गो मृगाकृतिः। जिघांसुरकृतप्रज्ञस्तं प्रहारमनुस्मरन्॥