मैत्रेय उवाच भवो भवान्या निधनं प्रजापते- रसत्कृताया अवगम्य नारदात् । स्वपार्षदसैन्यं च तदध्वरर्भुभि- र्विद्रावितं क्रोधमपारमादधे ॥ १ ॥
maitreya uvaca bhavo bhavanya nidhanam prajapater asat-krtaya avagamya naradat sva-parsada-sainyam ca tad-adhvararbhubhir vidravitam krodham aparam adadhe
- maitreyah uvaca
- Maitreya said
- bhavah
- Lord Siva
- bhavanyah
- of Sati
- nidhanam
- the death
- prajapateh
- because of Prajapati Daksa
- asat-krtayah
- having been insulted
- avagamya
- hearing about
- naradat
- from Narada
- sva-parsada-sainyam
- the soldiers of his own associates
- ca
- and
- tat-adhvara
- (produced from) his (Daksa’s) sacrifice
- rbhubhih
- by the Rbhus
- vidravitam
- were driven away
- krodham
- anger
- aparam
- unbounded
- adadhe
- showed
Maitreya said: When Lord Siva heard from Narada that Sati, his wife, was now dead because of Prajapati Daksa’s insult to her and that his soldiers had been driven away by the Rbhu demigods, he became greatly angry.