Then the illustrious Valmiki, addressing Yudhishthira, said Once upon a time in course of a disputation, certain ascetics who possessed the Homafire condemned me as one guilty of Brahmanicide.
वाल्मीकिश्चाह भगवान् युधिष्ठिरमिदं वचः। विवादे साग्निमुनिभिर्ब्रह्मनो वै भवानिति॥