Text-23-24
SB 9.9.23-24
raksah-krtam tad viditva
cakre dvadasa-varsikam
so ’py apo-’ñjalim adaya
gurum saptum samudyatah
varito madayantyapo
rusatih padayor jahau
disah kham avanim sarvam
pasyañ jivamayam nrpah
Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada:
When Vasistha understood that the human flesh had been served by the Raksasa, not by the King, he undertook twelve years of austerity to cleanse himself for having cursed the faultless King. Meanwhile, King Saudasa took water and chanted the sapa-mantra, preparing to curse Vasistha, but his wife, Madayanti, forbade him to do so. Then the King saw that the ten directions, the sky and the surface of the globe were full of living entities everywhere.