By their habits of life they are Kshatriyas; but as they live on snakes, they are without humanity; and owing to their constant warfare with their kinsmen they never attain to the region of Brahma.
कर्मणा क्षत्रियाश्चैते निघृणा भोगिभोजिनः। ज्ञातिसंक्षयकर्तृत्वाद् ब्राह्मण्यं न लभन्ति वै॥