Skandapurana 5.112.69_5

5.112.69_5

teṣāṃ madhyasthitaścaikastrijāto brāhmaṇādhamaḥ ..
tena taddūṣitaṃ dravyaṃ samagraṃ homasaṃbhavam .. 68-..
mayā dattaṃ na gṛhṇaṃti te grahā bhāskarādayaḥ ..
tena kurvaṃti bhūpasya pīḍāmapyadhikāmimām .. 69 ..

Standing in their midst is one degraded brahmin, a trijāta; / by him all that substance produced for the fire offering has been defiled. / Offered by me, those planets beginning with the Sun do not accept it; / on that account they inflict this even greater distress upon the king. (68–69)