Tell me, O reverend sir, whose hermitage is this? Have we, O eminent ascetic, reached that spot where dwell those wicked minded wretches of impious deeds, given to slaughtering Brāhmaṇas, who disturb your sacrifice? Where, O adorable one, is that hermitage, repairing to which, O Brahmana, I am to protect your sacrificial rites, and to slay the Raksasas? All this, O foremost of ascetics, I desire to hear, O lord.
सर्वं मे शंस भगवन् कस्याश्रमपदं त्विदम्। सम्प्राप्ता यत्र ते पापा ब्रह्मघ्ना दुष्टचारिणः॥ तव यज्ञस्य विघ्नाय दुरात्मानो महामुने। भगवंस्तस्य को देश: सा यत्र तव याज्ञिकी॥ रक्षितव्या क्रिया ब्रह्मन् मया वध्याश्च राक्षसाः। एतत् सर्वं मुनिश्रेष्ठ श्रोतुमिच्छाम्यहं प्रभो॥