They spoke to you in that way, O twice born one, because they have full knowledge of what you had done but which you had not the courage to inform me of, fearing you had done wrong.
तत् त्वया मम यत् कर्म व्यभिचाराद् भयात्मकम्। नाख्यातमिति जानन्तस्ते त्वामाहुस्तथा द्विज॥