Verse 32

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The curse at the gate· Verses 32–38

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Your mother's sister's son Caidya, and Dantavakra, Pandava, were two of the first among Visnu's attendants, thrown down from their place by a brahmin's curse. What curse could it be, and whose, that lays a hand on a servant of Hari? That those wholly given to him should come into becoming can hardly be believed. Those who live in the city of Vaikuntha have neither body nor senses nor breath. That such a thing should be bound up with having a body: you ought to explain it. Once the sons of Brahma, Sanandana and the others, wandering through the three worlds, came as it happened to the world of Visnu. They looked like boys of five or six, though they were born before even the earliest, and they wore the directions for clothes. The two doorkeepers took them for children and turned them back.

Angered, they cursed them so: You two do not deserve to live here at the feet of the enemy of Madhu, where there is neither passion nor darkness. Fools, go at once to a womb among the demons, the most wicked there is. Cursed so, as the two were falling from their own house, those compassionate ones spoke again: After three births there will be a way back to that place for you.