Verse 23

²³The bard had not risen, had not bowed or joined his palms, and he was seated above those brahmins. Looking at this, Madhava grew angry. ²⁴Since this man, born of a union against the order, sits above these brahmins and above us who guard dharma, the fool deserves to die. ²⁵He became the pupil of the revered sage and studied a great deal, the old accounts and the ancient tellings and every one of the books of dharma. ²⁶But in a man untamed and untrained, who thinks himself learned for no reason, they come to nothing good, no more than they do in an actor who has not mastered himself. ²⁷It is for this that I have made my descent into this world. Those who carry dharma as a banner are to be killed by me, for they are worse than open sinners.

²⁸Having said only that much, the Bhagavan, who had left off even the killing of the wicked, struck him with the tip of the kusa grass in his hand, because it had to be.