60 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 2
some are in the mode of ignorance. Lord Visnu takes charge of persons
who are advanced Krsna conscious Vaisnavas, and Lord Brahma takes
charge of persons who are very much attached to material activities, but
Lord Siva is so kind that he takes charge of persons who are in gross
ignorance and whose behavior is lower than that of the animals. Therefore
Lord Siva is especially called auspicious.
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TH TARA ATT gee |
TM AT AT TEA TT THAAHAT 18
tasma unmada-nathaya
nasta-saucaya durhrde
datta bata maya sadhut
codite paramesthina
tasmai—to him; unmada-nathaya—to the lord of ghosts; nasta-saucaya—
being devoid of all cleanliness; durhrde—heart filled with nasty things;
datta—was given; bata—alas; maya—by me; sadhvi—Sati; codite—being re-
quested; paramesthina—by the supreme teacher (Brahma).
TRANSLATION
On the request of Lord Brahma | handed over my chaste daughter to
him, although he is devoid of all cleanliness and his heart is filled with
nasty things.
PURPORT
It is the duty of parents to hand over their daughters to suitable persons,
just befitting their family tradition in cleanliness, gentle behavior, wealth,
social position, etc. Daksa was repentant that, on the request of Brahma,
who was his father, he had handed over his daughter to a person
who, according to his calculation, was nasty. He was so angry that he did
not acknowledge that the request was from his father. He referred to
Brahma as paramesthit, the supreme teacher in the universe; because of
his temperament of gross anger, he was not even prepared to accept
Brahma as his father. In other words he accused even Brahma of being
less intelligent because he had advised geen to hand over his beautiful
daughter to such a nasty fellow. In anger one forgets everything, and thus
Daksa, in anger, not only accused the great Lord Siva, but he criticized
his father, Lord Brahma, for his not very sanguine advice that Daksa
hand over his daughter to Lord Siva.
