That beast having, successfully performed all the austerities of asceticism with a view to kill all the animals, had received that boon but was made blind instead by the Self-born.
तद् भूतं सर्वभूतानामभावाय किलार्जुन। तपस्तप्तवा वरं प्राप्तं कृतमन्धं स्वयम्भुवा॥