Verse 18

¹³And here they tell this old story: how the lord of the hill, having given a boon to the demon Vrka, came into a strait. ¹⁴There was a demon named Vrka, the son of Sakuni. Ill-minded, seeing Narada on the road, he asked him which among the three gods is quickly pleased. ¹⁵Narada said: Go after the god who is lord of the hill, and you will soon have what you want. He is quickly pleased and quickly angered by a small merit and a small fault. ¹⁶Pleased with the ten-faced one and with Bana, who praised him as bards praise, he gave them lordship beyond compare, and then came into a great strait from it. ¹⁷Told this, the demon went after Hara, whose mouth is fire, at Kedara, offering into him the flesh of his own body.

¹⁸Not getting the god to show himself, on the seventh day, out of despair, he cut at his head with an axe, his hair wet from that ford.