हन्यमानान्स्वकान्दृष्ट्वा पुरुषानुचरैर्बलिः ।
वारयामास संरब्धान् काव्यशापमनुस्मरन् ॥ १८ ॥
hanyamanan-being killed; svakan-his own soldiers; drstva-after seeing; purusa-anucaraih-by the associates of the Supreme Person; balih-Bali Maharaja; varayam asa-forbade; samrabdhan-even though they were very angry; kavya-sapam-the curse given by Sukracarya; anusmaran-remembering.
When
Bali Maharaja saw that his own soldiers were being killed by the associates of Lord
Visnu, he remembered the curse of Sukracarya and forbade his soldiers to continue fighting.