Once on a time a rich Vaishya, enjoying the highest state of prosperity and elated with his affluence, threw down, by rashly driving his car, a Rishi's son of rigid vows, named Kashyapa, given to penances.
वैश्यः कश्चिदृषिसुतं काश्यपं संशितव्रतम्। रथेन पातयामास श्रीमान् दृप्तस्तपस्विनम्॥