'For you having concealed your counsels, this great calamity has befallen me.' The highly energetic and the righteous king then, in sorrow, cursed all the women of the world, saying,-'Henceforth no woman shall succeed in keeping a secret."
भवत्या गूढमन्त्रत्वात् पीडितोऽस्मीत्युवाच ताम्॥ शशाप च महातेजाः सर्वलोकेषु योषितः। न गुह्यं धारयिष्यन्तीत्येवं दुःखसमन्वितः॥