Shringi said : He who has placed the dead snake on the shoulder of my old and lean father, that miscreant of a king, that insulter of the Brahmanas, the destroyer of the fame of the Kuru race, will be taken within seven days from to-day to the land of Yama: by the snake Takshaka, the powerful king of the serpents, stimulated by my words.
शृङ्गयुवाच योऽसौ वृद्धस्य तातस्य तथा कृच्छ्रगतस्य ह। स्कन्धे मृतं समानाक्षीत्पन्नगः राजकिल्बिषी॥ तं पापमतिसंक्रुद्धस्तक्षकः पन्नगेश्वरः। आशीविषस्तिग्मतेजा मद्वाक्यबलचोदितः॥ सप्तरात्रादितो नेता यमस्य सदनं प्रति। द्विजानामवमन्तारं कुरूणामयशस्करम्॥