Agni said Do you, O Mahendra, remember that formerly when the sage Chyavana officiated at the sacrifice of Sharyati with the twin gods Ashvins, and himself appropriated the Soma offering alone, you were filled with anger, and when bent upon preventing preventing Sharyati's sacrifice, you did violently strike Chyavana with your thunderbolt, that Brahmana, O Purandara, yielding to anger, was able by the power of his devotions to seize and hold fast your hand with your thunderbolt in it.
अग्नि उवाच यत्र शर्यातिं च्यवनो याजियिष्यन् सहाश्विभ्यां सोममगृह्णदेकः। तं त्वं क्रुद्धः प्रत्यषेधीः पुरस्ताच्छर्यातियज्ञं स्मर तं महेन्द्र।॥ वज्रं गृहीत्वा च पुरन्दर त्वं सम्प्राहार्षीश्च्यवनस्यातिघोरम्। मपागृह्णात् तपसा जातमन्युः॥