Verse 37

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The boy hurls his word· Verses 32–37

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The sage's son, a boy of great fire, was playing there with other children; and hearing that his father had been brought to shame by the king, he said this: See the wrongdoing of these guardians, fat as crows that live on what is offered: that servants should do harm to their own master, like dogs set at the door. It was the brahmanas who set the kshatriya in name only to be the guard of the door. How is one who stands at the door fit to eat in that house out of the master's own dish? Now that Krsna the Bhagavan has gone, who kept in order those who leave the road, I shall today keep in order these breakers of his bounds. Look at my power.

Saying this to his companions, his eyes red with rage, the sage's boy touched the water of the Kausiki and hurled the thunderbolt of his word: On the seventh day from now Taksaka, sent by me, shall bite this man who has overstepped the bounds, this cinder of his own line, who has done my father this harm.