एवं निराकृतो देवो वैरिणा तथ्यवादिना । नामृष्यत् तदधिक्षेपं तोत्राहत इव द्विप: ॥ ११ ॥
evam nirakrto devo vairina tathya-vadina namrsyat tad-adhiksepam totrahata iva dvipah
- evam
- thus
- nirakrtah
- being defeated
- devah
- King Indra
- vairina
- by his enemy
- tathya-vadina
- who was competent to speak the truth
- na
- not
- amrsyat
- lamented
- tat
- of him (Bali)
- adhiksepam
- the chastisement
- totra
- by the scepter or rod
- ahatah
- being beaten
- iva
- just like
- dvipah
- an elephant.
Since Maharaja Bali’s rebukes were truthful, King Indra did not at all become sorry, just as an elephant beaten by its driver’s rod does not become agitated.