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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.58.21

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: he curses Mahodaya to a long, miserable existence as a Niṣāda hunter → having pronounced the curses, he falls silent.

1.58.21

mahodayaś ca durbuddhir mām adūṣyaṃ hy adūṣayat
dūṣiṭaḥ sarvalokeṣu niṣādatvaṃ gamiṣyati

'And the evil-minded Mahodaya, who reviled me, the unassailable one—himself defamed in all the worlds, he shall come to the state of a Niṣāda.'

Words: mahodayaś ca — and Mahodaya; durbuddhir — the evil-minded; mām — me; adūṣyaṃ — the unassailable, blameless; hy — indeed; adūṣayat — reviled, blamed; dūṣiṭaḥ — reviled, defamed; sarvalokeṣu — in all the worlds; niṣādatvaṃ — the state of a Niṣāda; gamiṣyati — he shall go to

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.