Ashtaka said: O king, each of us has expressed our desire to give you the regions that each of us has acquired by his religious merits. You refuse to accept them. We leave them for you and we shall now descend into the earth-hell.
अष्टक उवाच न चेदेकैकशो राजंल्लोकान् नः प्रतिनन्दसि। सर्वे प्रदाय भवते गन्तारो नरकं वयम्॥