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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 8.12.33
retas tasya mahatmanah
SYNONYMS
yatra -- wherever; yatra -- and wherever; apatat -- fell; mahyam -- on the surface of the world; retah -- the semen; tasya -- of him; maha-atmanah -- of the great personality (Lord Siva); tani -- all those places; rupyasya -- of silver; hemnah -- of gold; ca -- and; kshetrani -- mines; asan -- became; mahi-pate -- O King.
TRANSLATION
O King, wheresoever on the surface of the globe fell the semen of the great personality of Lord Siva, mines of gold and silver later appeared.
PURPORT
Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura comments that those who seek gold and silver can worship Lord Siva for material opulences. Lord Siva lives under a bael tree and does not even construct a house in which to dwell, but although he is apparently poverty-stricken, his devotees are sometimes opulently endowed with large quantities of silver and gold. Parikshit Maharaja later asks about this, and Sukadeva Gosvami replies.
Copyright (c) The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness