Text 36]
Pregnancy of Diti in the Evening
559
PURPORT
Diti prayed for the mercy of Lord Śiva very cleverly. She prayed: “The lord can cause me to cry, but if he likes he can also stop my crying because he is Āśutoṣa. He is so great that if he likes he can immediately destroy my pregnancy, but by his mercy he can also fulfill my desire that my pregnancy not be spoiled. Because he is all-auspicious, it is not difficult for him to excuse me from being punished, although he is now ready to punish me because I have moved his great anger. He appears like a man, but he is the lord of all men.”
TEXT 36
स नः प्रसीदतां भामो भगवानुर्वनुग्रहः । 
  व्याधस्याप्यनुकम्प्यानां स्त्रीणां देवः सतीपतिः ॥३६॥
sa naḥ prasīdatām bhāmo 
  bhagavān urv-anugrahaḥ 
  vyādhasyāpy anukampyānām 
  strīṇām devaḥ satīpatiḥ
saḥ—he; naḥ—with us; prasīdatām—be pleased; bhāmaḥ—brother-in-law; bhagavān—the personality of all opulences; uru—very great; anugrahaḥ—merciful; vyādhasya—of the hunter; api—also; anukampyānām—of the objects of mercy; strīṇām—of the women; devaḥ—the worshipable lord; satīpatiḥ—husband of Satī (the chaste).
TRANSLATION
Let him be pleased with us, since he is my brother-in-law, the husband of my sister Satī. He is also the worshipable lord of all women. He is the personality of all opulences and can show mercy towards women, who are excused even by the uncivilized hunters.
PURPORT
Lord Śiva is the husband of Satī, one of the sisters of Diti. Diti invoked the pleasure of her sister Satī so that she would request her husband to excuse her; besides that, Lord Śiva is the worshipable lord of all women. He is naturally very kind towards women, on whom even the uncivilized hunters also show their mercy. Since Lord Śiva is himself associated with women, he knows very well their defective nature, and he might not take very seriously Diti’s unavoidable offense, which occurred due to her faulty nature. Every virgin girl is supposed to be a devotee of Lord Śiva. Diti remembered her childhood worship of Lord Śiva and begged his mercy.