Shloka 12
Nahūṣa’s Fall Explained: Agastya’s Account to Indra (Śalya-narrated)
अगस्त्य उवाच ततो विवदमान: स मुनिभि: सह वासव । अथ मामस्पृशन्मूर्थ्नि पादेनाधर्मपीडित:,अगस्त्यजी कहते हैं--इन्द्र! तब नहुष मुनियोंके साथ विवाद करने लगा और अधर्मसे पीड़ित होकर उस पापीने मेरे मस्तकपर पैरसे प्रहार किया
agastya uvāca | tato vivadamānaḥ sa munibhiḥ saha vāsava | atha mām aspṛśan mūrdhni pādena adharmapīḍitaḥ |
अगस्त्य उवाच—ततो विवदमानः स मुनिभिः सह, वासव। अथ मामस्पृशन्मूर्ध्नि पादेनाधर्मपीडितः॥
अगस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
When a ruler or powerful person becomes dominated by adharma—anger, pride, and disrespect—he commits grave offenses, especially against sages and elders; such transgression signals moral collapse and invites downfall.
Agastya recounts to Indra that Nahusha, having fallen into unrighteous conduct, argued with the sages and, in a shocking act of arrogance, struck Agastya on the head with his foot.