Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.89.2

tasya jijnasaya te vai

bhrigum brahma-sutam nripa

taj-jnaptyai preshayam asuh

so 'bhjagad brahmanah sabham

SYNONYMS

tasya -- about this; jijnasaya -- with the desire of knowing; te -- they; vai -- indeed; bhrigum -- Bhrigu Muni; brahma-sutam -- son of Brahma; nripa -- O King; tat -- this; jnaptyai -- to find out; preshayam asuh -- they sent; sah -- he; abhyagat -- went; brahmanah -- of Lord Brahma; sabham -- to the court.

TRANSLATION

Eager to resolve this question, O King, the sages sent Lord Brahma's son Bhrigu to find the answer. First he went to his father's court.

PURPORT

As Srila Prabhupada explains in Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, "The plan decided upon by the sages was for Bhrigu to test which of the predominating deities possessed the quality of goodness in full." One who is in the mode of goodness possesses such qualities as tolerance and equanimity, whereas those conducted by the modes of passion and ignorance are prone to easily lose their temper.

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