When the sin of Brahmanicide thus stuck to his body and filled him with terror, Indra entered the fibres of a lotus-stalk and lived there for many years.
स हि तस्मिन् समुत्पन्ने ब्रह्मवध्याकृते भय॥ नलिन्या बिसमध्यस्थ उवासाब्दगणान् बहून्।