एतद्वेदितुमिच्छाम: सर्व एव वयं मुने । भगवन्निन्दया वेनो द्विजैस्तमसि पातित: ॥ १७ ॥
etad veditum icchamah sarva eva vayam mune bhagavan-nindaya veno dvijais tamasi patitah
- etat
- this
- veditum
- to know
- icchamah
- desire
- sarve
- all
- eva
- certainly
- vayam
- we
- mune
- O great sage
- bhagavat-nindaya
- because of blaspheming the Lord
- venah
- Vena, the father of Prthu Maharaja
- dvijaih
- by the brahmanas
- tamasi
- into hell
- patitah
- was thrown.
O great sage, we are all eager to know the cause for this mercy of the Lord. I have heard that formerly a king named Vena blasphemed the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that all the brahmanas consequently obliged him to go to hell. Sisupala should also have been sent to hell.