- 'Oh ! the highly intellectual lion-king, let us go promptly to your ritual place, oh ! Indra among monarchs, take up initiatory rites and perform the sacrifice' [1-62-22]
With the consent of the officiating priests the king invested him ( Shunashepa ) with the sacred symbols with Kusa grass, dressed him in red apparel and tied him to the sacrificial post as a sacrificial animal. [1-62-24]
When Shunashepa was tied to ritual post he immensely pleased two gods, namely Indra and Upendra as well, with those two hymns ( he got from Vishvamitra ). [1-62-25]