Having answered the question thus, he had to enter the nether regions. Indeed, the powerful king of the Chedis had to undergo that misery for having answered falsely.
एवमुक्त्वा स नृपतिः प्रविवेश रसातलम्। उक्त्वाथ वितथं प्रश्नं चेदीनामीश्वरः प्रभुः॥