20 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 1

TEXT 29
ny TAI

waa fire wea aaan |
feat fatima: ater: AANTAT 12811

Sri-Suka uvaca
ekada girisam drastum
rsayas tatra suvratah
digo vitimirabhadsah
kurvantah samupdégaman

sri-Sukah uvéca—Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; ekadé—once upon a
time; girisam—Lord Siva; drastum—to see; rsayah—very saintly per-
sons; tatra—in that forest; su-vratah—highly elevated in spiritual
power; disah—all directions; vitimira-dbhasah—having been cleared of
all darkness whatsoever; kurvantah—doing so; samupaégaman—
arrived.

TRANSLATION

Sukadeva Gosvami 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 Siva in that forest.

TEXT 30

TY fraveritaar Sat arn ata ray |
WOE aT aay TTR

tan vilokyambika devi
vivadsa vridita bhrsam

bhartur ankat samutthaya
nivim asv atha paryadhat

tan—all the saintly persons; vilokya—seeing them; ambika —mother
Durga; devi—the goddess; vivdsd—because she was naked; vridita—
ashamed; bhrsam—highly; bhartuh—of her husband; ankat—from the
