ततः शक्रः स्पृष्टमात्रस् तया तु; स्रस्तैर् अङ्गैः पतितो ऽभूद् धरण्याम् ॥
तम् अब्रवीद् भगवान् उग्रतेजा; मैवं पुनः शक्र कृथाः कथं चित् ॥
विवर्तयैनं च महाद्रिराजं; बलं च वीर्यं च तवाप्रमेयम् ॥
विवृत्य चैवाविश मध्यम् अस्य; यत्रासते त्वद्विधाः सूर्यभासः ॥
tataḥ śakraḥ spṛṣṭamātras tayā tu; srastair aṅgaiḥ patito 'bhūd dharaṇyām ||
tam abravīd bhagavān ugratejā; maivaṃ punaḥ śakra kṛthāḥ kathaṃ cit ||
vivartayainaṃ ca mahādrirājaṃ; balaṃ ca vīryaṃ ca tavāprameyam ||
vivṛtya caivāviśa madhyam asya; yatrāsate tvadvidhāḥ sūryabhāsaḥ ||
"Then Shakra, merely touched by her, with limbs gone slack, fell to the ground; the fiercely radiant lord said to him: 'Never do this again, in any way. Move this great king of mountains -- your strength is immeasurable -- and, having opened it, enter its interior, where those like you, sun-bright, dwell.'"
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Here the humbled Indra learns that he is not the first. It is telling that the command to enter that place, "where those like you dwell," reveals to the one who imagined himself the sole lord that he has predecessors. Here is the healing of pride through knowledge: let the one who thought himself unequaled behold his equals. Thus scripture shows the lesson sent to Indra; and the cave holds the evidence of his non-uniqueness.