‘The poet threw a log of wood at the snake but the very next moment he regretted it. He was filled with self-derison, guilt and regret after hitting the snake. He thought that his act was ‘paltry’, ‘vulgar’ and ‘mean’. He ‘despised’ himself and his ‘accursed human education’. He had thrown the log at the snake who had come there to seek his hospitality. He had committed a sin and must expiate for it.