Wars between Suras and Asuras : Bhfgu curses Visnu - Verse 65-66

Listen and understand (the details of) the divine personality of Visnu, as I recount it. When the Yuga-Dharma (practice of Dharma—virtue—peculiar to a Yuga) gets reversed and declined and the time becomes slack and inactive, the Lord incarnates in order to stabilise righteousness (Dharma) in human beings. (These incarnations are) due to the curse of The text sapta-sapta-tapah proktd is not supported in the subsequent narrative. Bd. P. 2.3.72.63 reads bhTgu-stri*vadha-dQ$eoa ‘due to his ( Vi?nu’s) fault of killing (sage) Bhfgu's wife*. As the episode is given in the following verse the reading deserves adoption.