Being enraged on seeing the Rishi decline to yield the way to him, that best of kings, acted like a Rakshasa and he struck him violently with his whips.
अमुञ्चन्तं तु पन्थानं तमृषि नृपसत्तमः। जघान कशया मोहात् तदा राक्षसवन्मुनिम्॥