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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 14]
rudraḥ —Lord Śiva;  patiḥ —master;  hi —certainly;  bhūtānām —of all living entities;  yasya —whose;  akaravam —I have done;  aṁhasam —offense.
TRANSLATION
The beautiful Diti said: My dear  brāhmaṇa , kindly see that my embryo is not killed by Lord Śiva, the lord of all living entities, because of the great offense which I have committed against him.
PURPORT
Diti was conscious of her offense and was anxious to be excused by Lord Śiva. Lord Śiva has two popular names, Rudra and  Āśutoṣa . He is very prone to anger as well as quickly pacified. Diti knew that because of his being quickly angered he might spoil the pregnancy she had so unlawfully achieved. But because he was also  Āśutoṣa , she implored her  brāhmaṇa  husband to help her in pacifying Lord Śiva, for her husband was a great devotee of Lord Śiva. In other words, Lord Śiva might have been angry with Diti because she obliged her husband to transgress the law, but he would not refuse her husband's prayer. Therefore the application for excuse was submitted through her husband. She prayed to Lord Śiva as follows.
TEXT 35
नमो रुद्राय महते देवायोग्राय मीढुषे । 
    शिवाय न्यस्तदण्डाय धृतदण्डाय मन्यवे ॥३५॥
namo rudrāya mahate 
    devāyogrāya mīḍhuṣe 
    śivāya nyasta-daṇḍāya 
    dhṛta-daṇḍāya manyave
namaḥ —all obeisances unto;  rudrāya —unto the angry Lord Śiva;  mahate —unto the great;  devāya —unto the demigod;  ugrāya —unto the ferocious;  mīḍhuṣe —unto the fulfiller of all material desires;  śivāya —unto the all-auspicious;  nyasta-daṇḍāya —unto the forgiving;  dhṛta-daṇḍāya —unto the immediate chastiser;  manyave —unto the angry.
TRANSLATION
Let me offer my obeisances unto the angry Lord Śiva, who is simultaneously the very ferocious great demigod and the fulfiller of all material desires. He is all-auspicious and forgiving, but his anger can immediately move him to chastise.