Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 8 - Chapter 1 - Verse 18


Sanskrit:

हन्यमानान् स्वकान् द‍ृष्ट्वा पुरुषानुचरैर्बलि: ।वारयामास संरब्धान् काव्यशापमनुस्मरन् ॥ १८ ॥

ITRANS:

hanyamānān svakān dṛṣṭvāpuruṣānucarair baliḥvārayām āsa saṁrabdhānkāvya-śāpam anusmaran

Translation:

When Bali Mahārāja saw that his own soldiers were being killed by the associates of Lord Viṣṇu, he remembered the curse of Śukrācārya and forbade his soldiers to continue fighting.

Purport: