Beholding him in that plight the grand-father of the deities said:-O performer of hundred sacrifices, why did you formerly perpetrate that mighty iniquity?
तं तु दृष्ट्वा तथाभूतं प्राह देवः पितामहः। शतक्रतो किमु पुरा करोति स्म सुदुष्कृतम्॥