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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.58.17
Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 58: Story of Viśvāmitra: Triśaṅku’s sacrifice and the priests’ refusal. Viśvāmitra promises Triśaṅku bodily ascent and summons priests, then curses Vasiṣṭha’s sons & Mahodaya for rejecting the sacrifice
In the sequence: enraged, Viśvāmitra curses Vasiṣṭha's sons to destruction and seven hundred births as deformed, pitiless corpse-eaters called Muṣṭikas, living on dogs' flesh
1.58.17
teṣāṃ tadvacanaṃ śrutvā sarveṣāṃ munipuṃgavaḥ
krodhasaṃraktanayanaḥ saroṣam idam abravīt
Hearing that word of all of them, the bull among sages, his eyes red with anger, wrathfully said this:
Words: teṣāṃ — their; tadvacanaṃ — that word; śrutvā — having heard; sarveṣāṃ — of all; munipuṃgavaḥ — the bull among sages; krodhasaṃraktanayanaḥ — his eyes red with anger; saroṣam — wrathfully, with anger; idam — this; abravīt — said
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.