Unto the cheerless and trembling Karna, that foremost one of Bhrigu's race, smiling though angry, said to the cheerless and trembling Karna who was lying on Earth with joined hands, since you have from avarice of weapons, behaved here falsely, therefore, O wretch, this Brahma weapon shall not remain in your remembrance.
तमुवाच भृगुश्रेष्ठः सरोषः प्रदहन्निवा भूमौ निपतितं दीनं वेपमानं कृताञ्जलिम्॥ यस्मान्मिथ्योपचरितो ह्यस्त्रलोभादिह त्वया। तस्मादेतन ते मूढ ब्रह्मास्त्रं प्रतिभास्यति॥