Parikshit while hunting was fatigued. He came across the hermit of sage Shamika and saw the sage meditating. He asked him the whereabouts of a deer which he was hunting. But the sage did not answer for he was meditating. Angry at this Parikshit placed a dead snake on Shamika's neck. The sage had a son named Sringin who heard this incident from another sage's son named Krisa became furious. He cursed Parikshit was to die of Snakebite in seven days, for disrespecting Rishi Shamika. Parikshit, died after Takshaka king of snakes bit him.