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poison had fallen and scattered from Lord Siva’s hand while he was
drinking.
PURPORT

Mosquitoes, jackals, dogs and other varieties of dandasiika, or animals
whose bites are poisonous, drank the poison of the samudra-manthana,
the churned ocean, since it was available after it fell from the palms of
Lord Siva.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Eighth Canto, Seventh
Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “Lord Siva Saves the
Universe by Drinking Poison.”’
