Vidura said O chief among kings, Manu, the descendant of the self-create. Being, has spoken of the following seventeen kinds of men as those who strike the air with fists, O son of Vichitravirya; (or as) those who seek to bend the bow of Indra, composed of vapour and to touch the rays of the sun, which cannot be touched.
विदुर उवाच सप्तदशेमान् राजेन्द्र मनुः स्वायम्भुवोऽब्रवीत्। वैचित्रवीर्य पुरुषानाकाशं मुष्टिभिनतः॥ दानवेन्द्रस्य च धनुरनाम्यं नमतोऽब्रवीत्। अथो मरीचिनः पादानग्राह्यान् गृह्णतस्तथा॥