Verse 16

¹⁶Rohita made out what his father meant to do, and wanting to keep his life he took his bow in hand and went off into the forest. ¹⁷Hearing that his father had been seized by Varuna and that his belly had swollen up, Rohita set out for the village; but Indra turned him back. ¹⁸Sakra told Rohita that walking round the earth is holy, by the frequenting of fords and holy places; and he lived a year in the forest. ¹⁹So too in the second year, and the third, and the fourth, and the fifth: the killer of Vrtra came again and again, becoming an old brahmin, and spoke to him. ²⁰Having wandered there a sixth year, Rohita came up towards the city and bought from Ajigarta his middle son.

²¹He gave Sunahsepa to his father as the animal and bowed down to him. Then Hariscandra of great renown, by that human sacrifice,