Gopalacampu 1.17.7

1.17.7

[3] tad api ca yad api pūrva-pūrva-saṃvatsareṣu dṛṣṭam ity apūrva-dṛṣṭaṃ na bhavati, tathāpi samprati prauḍhatāprakāśataḥ śatamanyuṃ prati manyuṃ janayan janakādiṣu praṇaya-kopaṃ jñāpayann ajñānata iva jijñāsāñcakre | yadyapi śataparva-pāṇir evaṃ garvāyate, ete gopālana-kārakāḥ ke varākāḥ? nikhila-loka-lokapāla-pālakasya mama dakṣa-mukhyāḥ prajāpatayaḥ svīya-manvantara-pati-prabhṛtayaḥ pṛthivī-patayaḥ kamalajanma-janma-pradhānā munīśānā yajamānā virājantetarām iti, tathāpy ete mat-pitṛ-puraḥ-sarās tatra bhaktim atiriktīkurvanti iti |

Even so, although it had been seen in previous years and was therefore not unseen before, nonetheless, now, out of the manifestation of maturity, causing anger toward Śatamanyu [Indra] and displaying feigned loving indignation toward his father and others, he inquired as if out of ignorance: “Even though the wielder of the hundred-jointed thunderbolt [Indra] is proud in this way—'Who are these wretched cowherds? Dakṣa and the other foremost lords of creatures, kings of the earth beginning with the rulers of their own Manvantaras, and the foremost sages whose first birth was from the lotus-born [Brahmā] shine forth as sacrificers of me, the protector of the guardians of all worlds'—yet these men, headed by my father, are offering excessive devotion to him!”