Verse 16

⁹Hear me, seers of Brahman, along with the gods and with the fires. I speak of what the conduct of good men is, and I speak neither out of ignorance nor out of spite. ¹⁰But this one is the killer of the good name of the guardians of the world, and he is shameless. The road that good men walk has been fouled by him in his stiff-neckedness. ¹¹He came into the place of a pupil to me when he took my daughter's hand before the fire and the brahmins, as though he were a good man taking Savitri herself. ¹²Having taken the hand of a girl whose eyes are a fawn's, this one with the eyes of a monkey did not even say what was fitting to a man who ought to be risen for and greeted.

¹³Unwilling as I was, I gave the girl to one whose rites have lapsed, who is unclean, who is full of himself, who has broken the bounds, as one gives lovely speech to a sudra. ¹⁴He goes about in the dreadful dwellings of the dead, ringed by ghosts and troops of spirits, naked, like a madman, his hair flying loose, laughing and weeping. ¹⁵He has bathed himself in the ash of the pyre; his garland is of the dead and his ornaments the bones of men. He goes by the name of the auspicious one and is not auspicious. He is mad, and mad people love him. He is the lord of the goblin hordes, whose very selves are made of darkness and nothing else.

¹⁶To him, the master of madness, whose cleanness is gone, whose heart is bad, I gave a good girl. And I did it, more is the pity, at the bidding of the highest one.