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21 OF CULTURE
 
कृति मंत्रालय
 
GOVERNMENT O
 
GENESIS OF THE BHAGAVATA
 
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स तु ब्रह्मऋषेरंसे गतासुमुरगं रुषा ।

विनिर्गच्छन्धनुष्कोट्या निधाय पुरमागमत् ॥
 
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While going away from him, Parikshit

angrily placed, with the tip of his bow, a

dead snake on the shoulder of that

Brahmin sage and returned to his city.
 
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तस्य पुत्रोऽतितेजस्वी श्रुत्वा तत्रेदमब्रवीत् ।

कृष्णे गते भगवति शास्तर्युत्पथगामिनाम् ।

तद्भिन्नसेतूनद्याहं शास्मि पश्यत मे बलम् ॥'
 

The son
of
 
The so
that sage, a man of that
man
sage, a

exceeding spiritual power, heard (of this)

and said this there: "Now that Lord

Krishna, the chastiser of the erring, is

gone, I shall chastise the transgressors;

witness my prowess."
 

 
इत्युक्त्तावा रोषताम्राक्षो वाग्वज्रं विससर्ज है।
 
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इति लङिघतमर्यादें तक्षकः सप्तमेऽहनि ।

दङ्क्ष्यति स्म कुलाङ्गारं चोदितो मे पितृद्रुहम्'
 

Having spoken thus, the boy delivered

a curse, his eyes red with rage: "Insti-

gated by me, (the serpent) Takshaka shall,

on the seventh day (from now), bite this