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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.35.20

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 35: Story of Gaṅgā & Umā: Restrained union and Umā’s curses. The Devas interrupt Śiva & Umā’s union, his released energy transforms the earth through Agni & Vāyu, Umā curses the Devas and the earth

In the sequence: Umā, furious that they prevented her from obtaining a son, curses them never to beget children through their own wives

1.35.20

atha śaila sutā rāma tridaśān idam abravīt
samanyur aśapat sarvān krodhasaṃraktalocanā

Then the daughter of the mountain, Rāma, said this to the gods; full of wrath, her eyes red with anger, she cursed them all:

Words: atha — then; śaila sutā — the daughter of the mountain; rāma — O Rāma; tridaśān — to the gods (the Thirty); idam — this; abravīt — said; samanyur — full of wrath; aśapat — cursed; sarvān — all; krodhasaṃraktalocanā — her eyes red with anger

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.