Having thus described at length and finished the story of Vſtra's destruction Lakşmaņa said:-The mighty Vţtra, the terror of the deities, being slain, and the slayer Indra being assailed by the sin of Brahmanicide, was bewildered and at a loss to ascertain his duty.
तदा वृत्रवधं सर्वमखिलेन स लक्ष्मणः। कथयित्वा नरश्रेष्ठः कथाशेष प्रचक्रमे॥ ततो हते महावीर्ये वृत्रे देवभयंकरे। ब्रह्महत्यावृतः शक्रः संज्ञां लेभे न वृत्रहा॥