Abhisattha [past participle of abhisaṃsati] cursed, accursed Thag 118 "old age falls on her as if it had been cursed upon her" (that is, laid upon her by a curse). Morris JPTS . 1886, 145 gives the commentator's equivalents, "commanded, worked by a charm". This is a curious idiom. Any European would say that the woman herself, not the old age, was accursed. But the whole verse is a riddle and Kern's translation ( Toev. sub voce ) "hurried up" seems to us impossible. {63}