CHAPTER FIVE
Frustration of the Sacrifice of Dakṣa
TEXT 1
मैत्रेय उवाच
भवो भवान्या निधनं प्रजापते-
रसत्कृताया अवगम्य नारदात् ।
स्वपार्षदसैन्यं च तदध्वरर्भुभि-
विद्रावितं क्रोधमपारमादधे ॥ १ ॥
maitreya uvāca bhavo bhavānyā nidhanam prajāpater asat-kṛtāyā avagamya nāradāt sva-pārṣada-sainyam ca tad-adhvararbhubhir vidrāvitam krodham apāram ādadhe
maitreyaḥ uvāca—Maitreya said; bhavaḥ—Lord Śiva; bhavānyāḥ—of Satī; nidhanam—the death; prajāpateḥ—because of Prajāpati Dakṣa; asat-kṛtāyāḥ—having been insulted; avagamya—hearing about; nāradāt—from Nārada; sva-pārṣada-sainyam—the soldiers of his own associates; ca—and; tat-adhvara—(produced from) his (Dakṣa's) sacrifice; ṛbhubhiḥ—by the Ṛbhu; vidrāvitam—were driven away; krodham—anger; apāram—unbounded; ādadhe—showed.
TRANSLATION
Maitreya said: When Lord Śiva heard from Nārada that Satī, his wife, was now dead because of Prajāpati Dakṣa's insult to her and that his soldiers had been driven away by the Ṛbhu demigods, he became greatly angry.
PURPORT
Lord Śiva understood that Satī, being the youngest daughter of Dakṣa, could present the case of Lord Śiva's purity of purpose and thus would be
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