'Then why did you say (you had been) instructed? How could anybody who did not know these things say that he had been instructed?' Then the boy went back sorrowful to the place of his father, and said: 'Though you had not instructed me, Sir, you said you had instructed me.

In plain words: The king asks how Svetaketu could claim to be educated without knowing these things. Svetaketu goes home sad and complains to his father that he was never really taught.