While he was engaged in plucking those fruits with eyes set towards them, some of them dropped, O king, on that deer-skin, in which those ear-rings had been carefully tied by that foremost of Brahmanas. With the strokes of the fruits, the know became loosened.
अथ पातयमानस्य बिल्वापहृतचक्षुषः। न्यपतंस्तानि बिल्वानि तस्मिन्नेवाजिने प्रभो॥ यस्मिंस्ते कुण्डले बद्धे तदा द्विजवरेण वै। बिल्वप्रहारैस्तस्याथ व्यशीर्यद् बन्धनं ततः॥