Verse 60

⁵⁵Saying, So be it, and taking it on, king, high-minded Diti received the child from Kasyapa and kept the vow properly. ⁵⁶Knowing what his mother's sister meant to do, giver of honour, shrewd Indra attended on Diti where she stayed in the hermitage, and served her. ⁵⁷Every day he brought her from the forest, each thing at its own time, flowers, fruit, roots, firewood and kusa grass, leaves, shoots, earth and water. ⁵⁸So, king, wanting to catch a flaw in her keeping of the vow, Indra served her crookedly, as a hunter of deer does who goes in the shape of a deer. ⁵⁹Bent on it, he found no flaw in the vow, lord of the earth, and Indra fell into keen anxiety: by what means will things go well for me here?

⁶⁰But once at twilight, with the leavings of her meal on her, worn thin by the vow, without touching water and with unwashed feet, she fell asleep, confused about the rule.