ये मधुच्छन्दसो ज्येष्ठा: कुशलं मेनिरे न तत् । अशपत् तान्मुनि: क्रुद्धो म्लेच्छा भवत दुर्जना: ॥ ३३ ॥
ye madhucchandaso jyesthah kusalam menire na tat asapat tan munih kruddho mleccha bhavata durjanah
- ye
- those who
- madhucchandasah
- sons of Visvamitra, celebrated as the Madhucchandas
- jyesthah
- eldest
- kusalam
- very good
- menire
- accepting
- na
- not
- tat
- that (the proposal that he be accepted as the eldest brother)
- asapat
- cursed
- tan
- all the sons
- munih
- Visvamitra Muni
- kruddhah
- being angry
- mlecchah
- disobedient to the Vedic principles
- bhavata
- all of you become
- durjanah
- very bad sons.
When requested by their father to accept Sunahsepha as the eldest son, the elder fifty of the Madhucchandas, the sons of Visvamitra, did not agree. Therefore Visvamitra, being angry, cursed them May all of you bad sons become mlecchas he said, being opposed to the principles of Vedic culture