The holy men, unweeting ill,

Took of the food and ate their fill.

Then Ilval with a mighty shout

Exclaimed “Vátápi, issue out.”

Soon as his brother's voice he heard,

The fiend with ram-like bleating stirred:

Rending in pieces every frame,

Forth from the dying priests he came.

So they who changed their forms at will

Thousands of Bráhmans dared to kill,—