Your head would have been severed in seven, if you had discharged the weapon knowingly at such an ascetic staying in austerities and versed in the Vedas.
सप्तधा तु भवेन्मूर्धा मुनौ तपसि तिष्ठति। ज्ञानाद् विसृजतः शस्त्रं तादृशे ब्रह्मवादिनि॥