स तत् संस्कृत्य विधिवद् अन्नोपहितम् आशु वै ॥
तस्मै प्रादाद् ब्राह्मणाय क्षुधिताय तपस्विने ॥
स सिद्धचक्षुषा दृष्ट्वा तदन्नं द्विजसत्तमः ॥
अभोज्यम् इदम् इत्य् आह क्रोधपर्याकुलेक्षणः ॥
यस्माद् अभोज्यम् अन्नं मे ददाति स नराधिपः ॥
तस्मात् तस्यैव मूढस्य भविष्यत्य् अत्र लोलुपा ॥
सक्तो मानुषमांसेषु यथोक्तः शक्तिना पुरा ॥
उद्वेजनीयो भूतानां चरिष्यति महीम् इमाम् ॥
sa tat saṃskṛtya vidhivad annopahitam āśu vai ||
tasmai prādād brāhmaṇāya kṣudhitāya tapasvine ||
sa siddhacakṣuṣā dṛṣṭvā tadannaṃ dvijasattamaḥ ||
abhojyam idam ity āha krodhaparyākulekṣaṇaḥ ||
yasmād abhojyam annaṃ me dadāti sa narādhipaḥ ||
tasmāt tasyaiva mūḍhasya bhaviṣyaty atra lolupā ||
sakto mānuṣamāṃseṣu yathoktaḥ śaktinā purā ||
udvejanīyo bhūtānāṃ cariṣyati mahīm imām ||
"He, having prepared the meat properly and mixed it with rice, quickly served it to the hungry ascetic brahmin. He, seeing that food with his eye of perfection, best of the twice-born, his eyes clouded with anger, said: 'This is not fit to eat. Since that lord of men gives me unfit food, that very fool himself shall crave it; addicted to human flesh, as Shakti said before, striking terror into beings, he will wander over this earth.'"
62c9ae7c02b7 · प्रकाशित 12 जुल॰ 2026, 5:29:43 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here a second curse reinforces the first — yet also reveals the harshness of anger. It is telling that the brahmin, on perceiving the impure food, does not inquire into its cause (the king's possession by the demon) but curses at once: anger rushes to punish without asking whether the one punished acted of his own will. Here is a lesson in how dangerous haste in anger is, even in the righteous: the curse falls on the king for a deed he did not himself commit, but the demon that had entered him. So the scripture shows the tragedy of curses compounding one another; and the brahmin's hasty anger completes the ruin begun by the king's pride and Vishvamitra's malice.