In days of yore, O Räma, on the occasion of the destruction of Vſtra, the thousand-eyed one came to have hunger, to be besmeared with excreta, and to slay a Brahmana.
पुरा वृत्रवधे राम मलेन समभिप्लुतम्॥ क्षुधा चैव सहस्राक्षं ब्रह्महत्या समाविशत्।