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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 18]
kamaṇḍaluṁ veda-garbhaḥ kuśān saptarṣayo daduḥ akṣa-mālāṁ mahārāja sarasvaty avyayātmanaḥ
kamaṇḍalum—a waterpot; veda-garbhaḥ—Lord Brahmā; kuśān—kuśa grass; sapta-rṣayaḥ—the seven sages; daduḥ—offered; akṣa-mālām—a string of Rudrākṣa beads; mahārāja—O King; sarasvatī—the goddess Sarasvatī; avyaya-ātmanaḥ—to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
O King, Lord Brahmā offered a waterpot to the inexhaustible Supreme Personality of Godhead, the seven sages offered Him kuśa grass, and mother Sarasvatī gave Him a string of Rudrākṣa beads.
TEXT 17
तस्मा इत्युपनीताय यक्षराट् पात्रिकामदात् । मिक्षां भगवती साक्षादुमादादम्बिका सती ॥१७॥
tasmā ity upanītāya yakṣa-rāṭ pātrikām adāt bhikṣāṁ bhagavatī sākṣād umādād ambikā satī
tasmai—unto Him (Lord Vāmanadeva); iti—in this way; upanītāya—who had undergone His sacred thread ceremony; yakṣa-rāṭ—Kuvera, the treasurer of heaven and King of the Yakṣas; pātrikām—a pot for begging alms; adāt—delivered; bhikṣām—alms; bhagavatī—mother Bhavānī, the wife of Lord Śiva; sākṣāt—directly; umā—Umā; adāt—gave; ambikā—the mother of the universe; satī—the chaste.
TRANSLATION
When Vāmanadeva had thus been given the sacred thread, Kuvera, King of the Yakṣas, gave Him a pot for begging alms, and