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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 1
TEXT 29
श्रीशुक उवाच
एकदा गिरिशं द्रष्टुमृषयस्तत्र सुव्रताः । दिशो वितिमिराभासाः कुर्वन्तः समुपागमन् ॥२९॥
śrī-śuka uvāca ekadā giriśam draṣṭum ṛṣayas tatra suvratāḥ diśo vitimirābhāsāḥ kurvantaḥ samupāgaman
śrī-śukaḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; ekadā—once upon a time; giriśam—Lord Śiva; draṣṭum—to see; ṛṣayaḥ—very saintly persons; tatra—in that forest; su-vratāḥ—highly elevated in spiritual power; diśaḥ—all directions; vitimira-ābhāsāḥ—having been cleared of all darkness whatsoever; kurvantaḥ—doing so; samupāgaman—arrived.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī answered: Great saintly persons who strictly observed the spiritual rules and regulations and whose own effulgence dissipated all the darkness of all directions once came to see Lord Śiva in that forest.
TEXT 30
तान् विलोक्याम्बिका देवी विवासा व्रीडिता भृशम् । भर्तुरङ्कात् समुत्थाय नीवीमाश्वथ पर्यधात् ॥३०॥
tān vilokyāmbikā devī vivāsā vrīḍitā bhṛśam bhartur aṅkāt samutthāya nīvīm āśv atha paryadhāt
tān—all the saintly persons; vilokya—seeing them; ambikā—mother Durgā; devī—the goddess; vivāsā—because she was naked; vrīḍitā—ashamed; bhṛśam—highly; bhartuḥ—of her husband; aṅkāt—from the