Canto 4: Creation of the Fourth OrderChapter 5: Frustration of the Sacrifice of Dakṣa

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.5.11

amarṣayitvā tam asahya-tejasaḿ

manyu-plutaḿ durnirīkṣyaḿ bhru-kuṭyā

karāla-daḿṣṭrābhir udasta-bhāgaṇaḿ

syāt svasti kiḿ kopayato vidhātuḥ

SYNONYMS

amarṣayitvā — after causing to become angry; tam — him (Lord Śiva); asahya-tejasam — with an unbearable effulgence; manyu-plutam — filled with anger; durnirīkṣyam — not able to be looked at; bhru-kuṭyā — by the movement of his brows; karāla-daḿṣṭrābhiḥ — by his fearful teeth; udasta-bhāgaṇam — having scattered the luminaries; syāt — there should be; svasti — good fortune; kim — how; kopayataḥ — causing (Lord Śiva) to be angry; vidhātuḥ — of Brahmā.

TRANSLATION

The gigantic black man bared his fearful teeth. By the movements of his brows he scattered the luminaries all over the sky, and he covered them with his strong, piercing effulgence. Because of the misbehavior of Dakṣa, even Lord Brahmā, Dakṣa's father, could not have been saved from the great exhibition of anger.

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