Devanagari
एतद्वेदितुमिच्छाम: सर्व एव वयं मुने ।
भगवन्निन्दया वेनो द्विजैस्तमसि पातित: ॥ १७ ॥
Verse text
etad veditum icchāmaḥ
sarva eva vayaṁ mune
bhagavan-nindayā veno
dvijais tamasi pātitaḥ
Synonyms
etat
—
this
;
veditum
—
to know
;
icchāmaḥ
—
desire
;
sarve
—
all
;
eva
—
certainly
;
vayam
—
we
;
mune
—
O great sage
;
bhagavat
—
nindayā — because of blaspheming the Lord
;
venaḥ
—
Vena, the father of Pṛthu Mahārāja
;
dvijaiḥ
—
by the brāhmaṇas
;
tamasi
—
into hell
;
pātitaḥ
—
was thrown .
Translation
O great sage, we are all eager to know the cause for this mercy of the Lord. I have heard that formerly a king named Vena blasphemed the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that all the brāhmaṇas consequently obliged him to go to hell. Śiśupāla should also have been sent to hell. How then did he merge into the Lord’s existence?
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
O sage! We all desire to know. King Vena fell to hell through the brāhmaṇas for criticizing the Lord.