यदरोदी: सुरश्रेष्ठ सोद्वेग इव बालक: । ततस्त्वामभिधास्यन्ति नाम्ना रुद्र इति प्रजा: ॥ १० ॥
yad arodih sura-srestha sodvega iva balakah tatas tvam abhidhasyanti namna rudra iti prajah
- yat
- as much as
- arodih
- cried loudly
- sura-srestha
- O chief of the demigods
- sa-udvegah
- with great anxiety
- iva
- like
- balakah
- a boy
- tatah
- therefore
- tvam
- you
- abhidhasyanti
- will call
- namna
- by the name
- rudrah
- Rudra
- iti
- thus
- prajah
- people.
Thereafter Brahma said: O chief of the demigods, you shall be called by the name Rudra by all people because you have so anxiously cried.