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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.58.18

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

1.58.18

yad dūṣayanty aduṣṭaṃ māṃ tapa ugraṃ samāsthitam
bhasmībhūtā durātmāno bhaviṣyanti na saṃśayaḥ

'Since they revile me, who am blameless and engaged in fierce austerity, these evil-souled ones shall be reduced to ashes, no doubt.'

Words: yad — since; dūṣayanty — they revile, blame; aduṣṭaṃ — blameless, faultless; māṃ — me; tapa — austerity; ugraṃ — fierce; samāsthitam — engaged in, undertaking; bhasmībhūtā — reduced to ashes; durātmāno — the evil-souled; bhaviṣyanti — shall become; na saṃśayaḥ — (there is) no doubt

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.