Repeatedly uttering such deep sounds and thereby frightening all animals and birds, that proud dweller of a hole, with large body, spoke in a human voice and said, “You kings, this great sacrifice is not equal to a prastha of powdered daily given away by a liberal Brahmana of Kurukshetra who was observing the Unchcha vow.
सकृदुत्सृज्य तन्नादं त्रासयानो मृगद्विजान्। मानुषं वचनं प्राह धृष्टो विलशयो महान्॥ सक्तुप्रस्थेन वो नायं यज्ञस्तुल्यो नराधिपाः। उच्छवृत्तेर्वदान्यस्य कुरुक्षेत्रनिवासिनः॥