The king sentenced him along with the thieves. The guards, acting in ignorance, put the great Rishi also on the Shula (an instrument of death).
तं राजा सह तैश्चौरैरन्वशाद् वध्यतामिति। स रक्षिभिस्तैरज्ञात: शूले प्रोतो महातपाः॥