And with his senses centred on the study of the Vedas, that righteous-souled one, going to the hermitage, carried on austerities; but his religious rites were disturbed by certain girls. And daughters of sages and Pannagas and those of Rājarşis, as well as those of Apsarās, sporting, arrived at that quarter.
तपस्तेपे स धर्मात्मा स्वाध्यायनियतेन्द्रियः। गत्वाश्रमपदं तस्य विघ्नं कुर्वन्ति कन्यकाः॥ ऋपिपन्नगकन्याश्च राजर्षितनयाश्च याः। क्रीडन्त्योऽप्सरसश्चैव तं देशमुपपेदिरे॥