Verse 31

²⁴One day, taking up his bow and roaming in the forest after game, he followed the deer until he was worn out and very hungry and thirsty. ²⁵Seeing no water anywhere, he went into a hermitage, and saw a sage sitting there, quiet, his eyes closed. ²⁶His senses and his breath and his mind and his understanding were all held back and had come to rest; he had gone past the three states and had become Brahman, and did not change. ²⁷He was covered by his matted hair, fallen loose about him, and by a black deerskin. The king, his palate dry, asked him for water, such as he was. ²⁸Getting no seat of grass, no place to sit, no water offered and no kind word, he thought himself slighted, and grew angry.

²⁹It had never been so with him before, brahmana; but all at once, his self worn down by hunger and thirst, spite and anger rose in him against that brahmana. ³⁰Going out, in his anger he took up a dead snake on the tip of his bow, laid it on the shoulder of that sage of Brahman, and went back to his city. ³¹Was this man, who has held every organ of his still and shut his eyes, sunk in a false gathering? Or what could such a one have to do with men who are kshatriyas in name only?