aśapat tān muniḥ kruddho

aśapat tān muniḥ kruddho

mlecchā bhavata durjanāḥ

The elder fifty of the Madhucchandās, the sons of Viśvāmitra, did not agree to accept Śunaḥśepha as their elder brother. Therefore Viśvāmitra, becoming angry, cursed them. "May all of you bad sons become mlecchas," he said.

The fifty elder brothers did not think it was good to have Śunaḥśepha as their eldest brother. Viśvāmitra (muniḥ) then cursed them.

|| 9.16.34 ||

sa hovāca madhucchandāḥ

sārdhaṁ pañcāśatā tataḥ

yan no bhavān sañjānīte

tasmiṁs tiṣṭhāmahe vayam

Then along with the younger fifty sons, Madhucchandā said, "Dear father, we shall accept whatever arrangement you like."

The middle son Madhucchandā, along with the fifty younger sons, then spoke clearly (ha). “What you, our father, consider him to be, either oldest or youngest, we accept.’

|| 9.16.35 ||

jyeṣṭhaṁ mantra-dṛśaṁ cakrus

tvām anvañco vayaṁ sma hi

viśvāmitraḥ sutān āha

vīravanto bhaviṣyatha

ye mānaṁ me 'nugṛhṇanto

vīravantam akarta mām

The younger Madhucchandās accepted Śunaḥśepha, seer of mantras, as their eldest brother and told him, "We shall follow your orders." Viśvāmitra then said to his sons, "You, who accepted to honor me, will have sons. You have made me have sons."

The younger sons accepted Śunaḥśepha, seer of mantras, as the eldest son. He revealed mantras such as kasya nūnaṁ katamasyāmṛtānām. They said, “We, who are younger, will follow you.” Viśvāmitra, being pleased, said to them, “You will have sons. You accepted me as respectable by following my order. Thus, you have made me have sons. Otherwise from getting my curse and becoming mlecchas, I would be without sons.” 

|| 9.16.36 ||

eṣa vaḥ kuśikā vīro