तस्मा इमं शापमदादसाधु- रयं दुरात्माकृतबुद्धिरद्य । विप्रावमन्ता विशतां तमिस्रं यथा गज: स्तब्धमति: स एव ॥ १० ॥
tasma imam sapam adad asadhur ayam duratmakrta-buddhir adya vipravamanta visatam tamisram yatha gajah stabdha-matih sa eva
- tasmai
- unto Maharaja Indradyumna
- imam
- this
- sapam
- curse
- adat
- he gave
- asadhuh
- not at all gentle
- ayam
- this
- duratma
- degraded soul
- akrta
- without education
- buddhih
- his intelligence
- adya
- now
- vipra
- of a brahmana
- avamanta
- insulter
- visatam
- let him enter
- tamisram
- darkness
- yatha
- as
- gajah
- an elephant
- stabdha-matih
- possessing blunt intelligence
- sah
- he
- eva
- indeed.
Agastya Muni then spoke this curse against the King: This King Indradyumna is not at all gentle. Being low and uneducated, he has insulted a brahmana. May he therefore enter the region of darkness and receive the dull, dumb body of an elephant.