Seeing that cow tied for slaughter, Kapila of liberal soul, ever following Sattvika duties, always engaged in controlling his senses, endued with true knowledge, and sparing in diet, having gained an excellent understanding that was characterised by faith, perfectly fearless, beneficial, firm, and ever directed towards truth, uttered-Alas, ye Vedas!-At that time a Rishi by name Syumarashmi, entering the form of that cow, addressed the Yati Kapila, saying,-Silence, O Kapila! If the Vedas are censurable, whence have those other duties come to regarded as authoritative.