तुर्यं छेदविरोहेण वरेण जगृहुर्द्रुमा: । तेषां निर्यासरूपेण ब्रह्महत्या प्रदृश्यते ॥ ८ ॥
turyam cheda-virohena varena jagrhur drumah tesam niryasa-rupena brahma-hatya pradrsyate
- turyam
- one fourth
- cheda
- although being cut
- virohena
- of growing again
- varena
- because of the benediction
- jagrhuh
- accepted
- drumah
- the trees
- tesam
- of them
- niryasa-rupena
- by the liquid oozing from the trees
- brahma-hatya
- the reaction for killing a brahmana
- pradrsyate
- is visible.
In return for Indra’s benediction that their branches and twigs would grow back when trimmed, the trees accepted one fourth of the reactions for killing a brahmana. These reactions are visible in the flowing of sap from trees.