And on account of the beauty of that region, those wenches, coming to where that twice-born one, Pulastya was, used to sing, to play on instruments, and to dance; and thus those blameless beauties disturbed the rites of that anchoret practising austerities. Thereat, the mighty ascetic, waxing wroth, said,
देशम्य रमणीयत्वात्पुलस्त्यो यत्र स द्विजः। गायन्त्यो वादयन्त्यश्च लासयन्त्यस्तथैव च॥ मुनेस्तपस्विनस्तस्य विघ्नं चक्रुरनिन्दिताः। अथ रुष्टो महातेजा व्याजहार महामुनिः॥