Hearing these words of his uncle Narada, excited with ire cursed his nephew Parvata in return, saying,—although you possess ascetic merit and Brahmacharya and truth and selfcontrol, and although you are ever devoted to virtue, yet you will not succeed in proceeding to heaven.
स तद् वाक्यं तु विज्ञाय नारदः पर्वतं तथा॥ अशपत्तमपि क्रोधाद् भागिनेयं स मातुलः। तपसा ब्रह्मचर्येण सत्येन च दमेन च।॥ युक्तोऽपि नित्यधर्मश्च न वै स्वर्गमवाप्स्यसि।