When the Brahmanas saw that their curses make no impressions on them like arrows shot at stones, they fled in all directions, forsaking their rites and vows.
नाक्रामन्त यदा शापा बाणा मुक्ताः शिलास्विव। नियमान् सम्परित्यज्य व्यद्रवन्त द्विजातयः॥