Indra could understand that he was certainly entangled by sinful reactions for killing a brāhmaṇa.
Indeed, he could see sinful reaction personified following him, and thus he fled here and there in fear, thinking of how to rid himself of his sins.
He went to Mānasa-sarovara, and there, under the protection of the goddess of fortune, he meditated for one thousand years
Śrīmad-Bhagvatam 6.13
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