SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM: CANTO 4

Maitreya said: 'When Lord S'iva heard from Nârada about the death of Satî because of being insulted by Daksha and that the soldiers of his associates had been driven away by the Ribhus produced from Daksha's sacrificial fire, he showed an unbounded anger.

Maitreya said: When Lord S'iva heard from Nârada that Satî, his wife, was now dead because of Prajâpati Daksha's insult to her and that his soldiers had been driven away by the Ribhu demigods, he became greatly angry. (Vedabase)

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Very angry pressing his lips with his teeth he snatched from a cluster of hair from his head one hair blazing terribly like electricity or fire and immediately standing up Rudra laughed with a deep sound and dashed that hair on the ground.

Thus Lord S'iva, being extremely angry, pressed his lips with his teeth and immediately snatched from his head a strand of hair which blazed like electricity or fire. He stood up at once, laughing like a madman, and dashed the hair to the ground. (Vedabase)

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Then a great black man with a sky-high body as bright as three suns combined together appeared that had a thousand arms upholding several kinds of weapons, fearful teeth, a garland of skulls and hair on his head that looked like a burning fire.

A fearful black demon as high as the sky and as bright as three suns combined was thereby created, his teeth very fearful and the hairs on his head like burning fire. He had thousands of arms, equipped with various weapons, and he was garlanded with the heads of men. (Vedabase)

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Upon asking him, the great Lord, with folded hands: 'What can I do for you, o Lord of the Ghosts?', he was told: 'You as the chief of my associates, o Rudra, o expert of combat born from my body, go and put an end to Daksha and his sacrifice!'

When that gigantic demon asked with folded hands, "What shall I do, my lord?" Lord S'iva, who is known as Bhûtanâtha, directly ordered, "Because you are born from my body, you are the chief of all my associates. Therefore, kill Daksha and his soldiers at the sacrifice. (Vedabase)"

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Ordered this way he, angry by the very personification of anger that is worshiped by the godly, circumambulated him, the mighty one, considering himself, endowed with his unopposable power, to be of the greatest power, my dear Vidura, capable of coping with any force against him.

Maitreya continued: My dear Vidura, that black person was the personified anger of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and he was prepared to execute the orders of Lord S'iva. Thus, considering himself capable of coping with any power offered against him, he circumambulated Lord S'iva. (Vedabase)

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Followed by the soldiers of S'iva who roared with a tumultuous sound, he hurried there carrying a trident fearful enough to kill even death and bangles on his ankles that made a loud sound.

Many other soldiers of Lord S'iva followed the fierce personality in a tumultuous uproar. He carried a great trident, fearful enough to kill even death, and on his legs he wore bangles which seemed to roar. (Vedabase)

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At that moment the priests, Daksha the leader of the Yajña and all the persons assembled saw, coming from the north, the darkness of a duststorm, upon which the brahmins and their wives began to speculate on where this dust came from:

At that time, all the persons assembled in the sacrificial arena--the priests, the chief of the sacrificial performance, and the brâhmanas and their wives--wondered where the darkness was coming from. Later they could understand that it was a dust storm, and all of them were full of anxiety. (Vedabase)

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'The winds don't blow, it can't be plunderers since old King Barhi is still alive to punish them, the cows aren't driven out; so from where do we have this dust? Does this mean that the world is about to end?'

Conjecturing on the origin of the storm, they said: There is no wind blowing, and no cows are passing, nor is it possible that this dust storm could be raised by plunderers, for there is still the strong King Barhi, who would punish them. Where is this dust storm blowing from? Is the dissolution of the planet now to occur. (Vedabase)?

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The women of Daksha headed by Prasûti being very afraid said: 'This is indeed the danger resulting from the sin of, as her Lord and creator, having insulted his completely innocent daughter Satî in the presence of her sisters.

Prasûti, the wife of Daksha, along with the other women assembled, became very anxious and said: This danger has been created by Daksha because of the death of Satî, who, even though completely innocent, quit her body as her sisters looked on. (Vedabase)

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But he who at the time of dissolution dances with the bunch of his hair scattered, pierces the rulers of all directions on his trident and laughs aloud, dividing those directions with the sound of thunder while raising the weapons in his hands like flags.

At the time of dissolution, Lord S'iva's hair is scattered, and he pierces the rulers of the different directions with his trident. He laughs and dances proudly, scattering their hands like flags, as thunder scatters the clouds all over the world. (Vedabase)

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How could there be good fortune having, of Brahmâ, raised the anger of him who with an unbearable effulgence full of anger now scatters the luminaries with the unbearable sight of his fearful teeth and the movement of his eyebrows?'

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 Daksha, even Lord Brahmâ, Daksha's father, could not have been saved from the great exhibition of anger. (Vedabase)

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While the people assembled at Daksha's sacrifice were all talking like this, looking around nervously, could, of the great soul, everywhere and repeatedly countless fearful omens be observed in the sky and on the earth.

While all the people talked amongst themselves, Daksha saw dangerous omens from all sides, from the earth and from the sky. (Vedabase)

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Quickly, o Vidura, was the arena of sacrifice surrounded by the followers of Rudra who with his choice of weapons were running all around with their short, blackish and yellowish, shark-like bodies and faces.

My dear Vidura, all the followers of Lord S'iva surrounded the arena of sacrifice. They were of short stature and were equipped with various kinds of weapons; their bodies appeared to be like those of sharks, blackish and yellowish,. They ran all around the sacrificial arena and thus began to create disturbances. (Vedabase)

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Some pulled down the pillars of the pandal while others invaded the quarters of the women, the sacrificial arena, the residence of the priests and the place where one was cooking .

Some of the soldiers pulled down the pillars which were supporting the pandal of sacrifice, some of them entered the female quarters, some began destroying the sacrificial arena, and some entered the kitchen and the residential quarters. (Vedabase)

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Some shattered the pots used for the sacrifice, some extinguished the fires burning for the sacrifice, some urinated and some tore down the boundary lines demarking the arena.

They broke all the pots made for use in the sacrifice, and some of them began to extinguish the sacrificial fire. Some tore down the boundary line of the sacrificial arena, and some passed urine on the arena. (Vedabase)

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Others blocked the sages their way and some threatened the women and arrested the godly ones they could catch in their flight.

Some blocked the way of the fleeing sages, some threatened the women assembled there, and some arrested the demigods who were fleeing the pandal. (Vedabase)