Verse 19

¹⁹In the assembly the revered Bhava plucked out the beard of Bhrgu, who stood there ladle in hand at the offering, and who had once laughed and shown that beard. ²⁰The revered one threw Bhaga to the ground in anger and tore out his eyes: the one who from his seat in the assembly had egged on with a glance the man who was cursing. ²¹He knocked out Pusan's teeth, as Bala knocked out the Kalinga king's; for Pusan had laughed and shown those teeth while the honoured one was being cursed. ²²He set his foot on Daksa's chest and cut at him with a sharp-edged weapon; yet the three-eyed one could not get the head off. ²³When the skin was not broken even by weapons that carried their spells, Hara was greatly astonished, and the lord of the herds thought about it a long while.

²⁴Seeing the way in which beasts are quieted at a sacrifice, that lord used it, and took the head from the body of Ka, the beast that was here the sacrificer. ²⁵Then there was a shout of well done from those who praised that deed of his, from the spirits and the ghosts and the ghouls; for the others it was the other way about. ²⁶In his anger he offered that head into the southern fire there; and having burned down the ground where the gods were worshipped, he set out for the dwelling of the guhyakas.