पूष्णो ह्यपातयद्दन्तान् कालिङ्गस्य यथा बल: । शप्यमाने गरिमणि योऽहसद्दर्शयन्दत: ॥ २१ ॥
pusno hy apatayad dantan kalingasya yatha balah sapyamane garimani yo ’hasad darsayan datah
- pusnah
- of Pusa
- hi
- since
- apatayat
- extracted
- dantan
- the teeth
- kalingasya
- of the King of Kalinga
- yatha
- as
- balah
- Baladeva
- sapyamane
- while being cursed
- garimani
- Lord Siva
- yah
- who (Pusa)
- ahasat
- smiled
- darsayan
- showing
- datah
- his teeth.
Just as Baladeva knocked out the teeth of Dantavakra, the King of Kalinga, during the gambling match at the marriage ceremony of Aniruddha, Virabhadra knocked out the teeth of both Daksa, who had shown them while cursing Lord Siva, and Pusa, who by smiling sympathetically had also shown his teeth.