For Takshaka, though benumbed with fear, did not at once fall into the fire, although libations were poured into the blazing sacrificial fire in his name and in the proper form.
हूयमाने भृशं दीप्तं विधिवद्वसुरेतसि। न स्म स प्राप तद्वन्हौ तक्षको भयपीडितः॥