Text 12] Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Siva 1035
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 ] who am acting.” In this way the illusion of
material existence is perpetuated.

The words sukim iva are also significant, for the fire-god Agni became
attracted by the beauty of Satadruti while she was circumambulating the
bridegroom Pracinabarhi, just as he had previously been attracted to
the beauty of Suki, the wife of Saptarsi. When the fire-god had been
present long ago at the assembly of Saptarsi, he was attracted by the beauty
of Suki when she was circumambulating in the same way. Agni’s wife,
named Svaha, took the form of Suki and enjoyed sex life with Agni. Not
only the fire-god Agni but the heavenly god Indra and sometimes even
Lord Brahma and Lord Siva—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
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famaoragafagaten: |
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vibudhasura-gandharva-
muni-siddha-naroragah
vijitah suryaya diksu
kvanayantyaiva niipuraih

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; uragah—denizens of Nagaloka;
vijitah—captivated; suryaya—by the new bride; diksu—in all directions;
kvanayant ya—tinkling; eva—only ; nupuraih—by her ankle bells.

TRANSLATION

While Satadruti was thus being married, the demons, the denizens of
Gandharvaloka, the great sages, and the denizens of Siddhaloka, the earthly
planets and Nagaloka, although highly exalted, were all captivated by the
tinkling of her ankle bells.

PURPORT

Generally a woman becomes more beautiful when, after an early mar-

riage, she gives birth to a child. To give birth to a child is the natural func-
