Yawning wistfully, shaking his dry and grizzly locks pointed upwards and scratching them with his finger the large mouthed cannibal repeatedly looked at the sleeping sons of Pandu. Of huge body and great strength of complexion like a mass of clouds, of teeth long and sharp pointed, of face emitting a sort of lustre, he was ever pleased with the human food. Smelling the scent of man, he spoke thus to his sister, “It is after a long time that my most favourite food has come to me. My tongue is moist with saliva in anticipating the relish of such food.
ऊर्ध्वाङ्गुलिः स कण्डूयन् धुन्वन् रूक्षान् शिरोरुहान् जृम्भमाणो महावक्त्रः पुनः पुनरवेक्ष्य च॥ हष्टो मानुषमांसस्य महाकायो महाबलः। आघ्राय मानुषं गन्धं भगिनीमिदमब्रवीत्॥ उपपन्नश्चिरस्याद्य भक्षोऽयं मम सुप्रियः। स्नेहस्रवान् प्रस्रवति जिह्वा पर्येति मे सुखम्॥