Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1530

c8.1530

Nimi had no patience to wait for five hundred years. So he started the yajña with Gautama as his preceptor. After Indra's Yajña for 500 years was over, Vasiṣṭha came to Nimi's Yajña hall. Nimi, at the time, was in the inner apartment of his palace. Though his servants went to him to tell him that his preceptor Vasiṣṭha had come, they waited outside his chamber as he was sleeping then. Within a few moments Vasiṣṭha was ablaze with anger. He raised his hands and cursed Nimi thus: "Oh! Nimi, you have insulted me, your preceptor. You disobeyed my injunction and began the Yajña. Therefore, let your body be parted from the soul and fall on the ground."