To that foremost of Rishis who had gone there for holding sexual intercourse, the child in the womb of Utathya's wife, O son of Kunti, whose body had already been formed to the five principal elements, said,-O giver of boons, I have already entered into this womb. You should not attack my mother!-Hearing these words of the unborn child, Brihaspati became filled with anger and imprecated a curse on him, saying,-Since you obstruct me thus when I have come there from desire of the pleasures of sexual union, therefore shall you, through my curse, be visited by blindness.
ततौ वै तमृषिश्रेष्ठं मैथुनोपगतं तथा। उवाच गर्भ: कौन्तेय पञ्चभूतसमन्वितः॥ पूर्वागतोऽहं नरद नार्हस्यम्बां प्रबाधितुम्। एतबृहस्पतिः श्रुत्वा चुक्रोध च शशाप च॥ मैथुनायागतो यस्मात्त्वयाऽहं विनिवारितः। तस्मादन्धो यास्यसि त्वं मच्छापान्नात्र संशयः॥