Text 12] Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Śiva
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then friends and then wealth. In this way the male becomes more and more entangled in the material conceptions of life, and he begins to think, “This is mine,” and “It is I who am acting.” In this way the illusion of material existence is perpetuated.
The words  śukīm iva  are also significant, for the fire-god Agni became attracted by the beauty of Śatadruti while she was circumambulating the bridegroom Prācīnabarhi, just as he had previously been attracted to the beauty of Śukī, the wife of Saptarṣi. When the fire-god had been present long ago at the assembly of Saptarṣi, he was attracted by the beauty of Śukī when she was circumambulating in the same way. Agni’s wife, named Śvāhā, took the form of Śukī and enjoyed sex life with Agni. Not only the fire-god Agni but the heavenly god Indra and sometimes even Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva—all very highly situated demigods—are subject to being attracted by sex at any time. The sex drive is so strong in the living entities that the whole material world is running on sex attraction only, and it is due to sex attraction that one remains in the material world and is obliged to accept different types of bodies. The attraction of sex life is more clearly explained in the next verse.
TEXT 12
विबुधासुरगन्धवंमुनिसिद्धनरोरगाः
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विजिताः सूर्या दिक्षु कणयन्त्यैव नूपुरैः ॥१२॥
vibudhāsura-gandharva- muni-siddha-naroragāḥ vijitāḥ sūryayā dikṣu kvaṇayantyaiva nūpuraiḥ
vibudha —learned;  asura —the demons;  gandharva —the denizens of Gandharvaloka;  muni —great sages;  siddha —the denizens of Siddhaloka;  nara —the inhabitants of the earthly planets;  uragāḥ —denizens of Nāgaloka;  vijitāḥ —captivated;  sūryayā —by the new bride;  dikṣu —in all directions;  kvaṇayantyā —tinkling;  eva —only;  nūpuraiḥ —by her ankle bells.
TRANSLATION
While Śatadruti was thus being married, the demons, the denizens of Gandharvaloka, the great sages, and the denizens of Siddhaloka, the earthly planets and Nāgaloka, although highly exalted, were all captivated by the tinkling of her ankle bells.
PURPORT
Generally a woman becomes more beautiful when, after an early marriage, she gives birth to a child. To give birth to a child is the natural func-