What sin have, I you excellent Brahmanas, or you, have committed, that Agni should disappear from this sacrifice, as good done to wicked men vanishes from their estimation.
दुष्कृतं मम किं नु स्याद् भवतां वा द्विजर्षभाः। येन नाशं जगामाग्निः कृतं कुपुरुषेष्विव॥