A king having committed the mortal crime of killing a Brâhmana, went to the hermitage of a sage to learn what penance he must perform in order to be purified.
The sage was absent from home, but his son was there. The son hearing the case of the king, said, "Repeat the name of God (Râma) three times and your sin will be expiated."
When the sage came back and heard the penance prescribed by his son, he said to him in great wrath, "Sins committed in myriads of births are purged at once by but once uttering the name of the Almighty; how weak must be your faith, O son, that you have ordered that name to be repeated thrice! For this offense of yours go and become a Kândâla, an outcast."
And the son became the Guhaka Kândâla of the Râmâyana.
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