This Rakshasa was a contumner of the Brahmanas and a destroyer of sacrifices; this wicked-souled one inimical to the performance of sacrifices and therefore has he been slain thus.
एष हि ब्राह्मणद्वेषी यज्ञद्वेषी च राक्षसः। धर्मस्य लोप्ता पापात्मा तस्मादेष निपातितः॥