हन्यमानान् स्वकान् दृष्ट्वा पुरुषानुचरैर्बलि: । वारयामास संरब्धान् काव्यशापमनुस्मरन् ॥ १८ ॥
hanyamanan svakan drstva purusanucarair balih varayam asa samrabdhan kavya-sapam anusmaran
- hanyamanan
- being killed
- svakan
- his own soldiers
- drstva
- after seeing
- purusa-anucaraih
- by the associates of the Supreme Person
- balih
- Bali Maharaja
- varayam asa
- forbade
- samrabdhan
- even though they were very angry
- kavya-sapam
- the curse given by Sukracarya
- anusmaran
- remembering.
When Bali Maharaja saw that his own soldiers were being killed by the associates of Lord Visnu, he remembered the curse of Sukracarya and forbade his soldiers to continue fighting.