ऋषिरुवाच एवं गिरित्र: प्रिययाभिभाषित: प्रत्यभ्यधत्त प्रहसन् सुहृत्प्रिय: । संस्मारितो मर्मभिद: कुवागिषून् यानाह को विश्वसृजां समक्षत: ॥ १५ ॥
rsir uvaca evam giritrah priyayabhibhasitah pratyabhyadhatta prahasan suhrt-priyah samsmarito marma-bhidah kuvag-isun yan aha ko visva-srjam samaksatah
- rsih uvaca
- the great sage Maitreya said
- evam
- thus
- giritrah
- Lord Siva
- priyaya
- by his dear wife
- abhibhasitah
- being spoken to
- pratyabhyadhatta
- replied
- prahasan
- while smiling
- suhrt-priyah
- dear to the relatives
- samsmaritah
- remembering
- marma-bhidah
- heart piercing
- kuvak-isun
- malicious words
- yan
- which (words)
- aha
- said
- kah
- who (Daksa)
- visva-srjam
- of the creators of the universal manifestation
- samaksatah
- in the presence
The great sage Maitreya said: Lord Siva, the deliverer of the hill Kailasa, having thus been addressed by his dear wife, replied smilingly, although at the same time he remembered the malicious, heart-piercing speeches delivered by Daksa before the guardians of the universal affairs.