To that foremost of Rishis who had gone there for holding sexual intercourse, the child in the womb of Utathya's wife, O son of Kunti, whose body had already been formed to the five principal elements, said,-O giver of boons, I have already entered into this womb. You should not attack my mother!-Hearing these words of the unborn child, Brihaspati became filled with anger and imprecated a curse on him, saying,-Since you obstruct me thus when I have come there from desire of the pleasures of sexual union, therefore shall you, through my curse, be visited by blindness.