ततोऽधस्ताद्वितले हरो भगवान् हाटकेश्वर: स्वपार्षदभूतगणावृत: प्रजापतिसर्गोपबृंहणाय भवो भवान्या सह मिथुनीभूत आस्ते यत: प्रवृत्ता सरित्प्रवरा हाटकी नाम भवयोर्वीर्येण यत्र चित्रभानुर्मातरिश्वना समिध्यमान ओजसा पिबति तन्निष्ठ्यूतं हाटकाख्यं सुवर्णं भूषणेनासुरेन्द्रावरोधेषु पुरुषा: सह पुरुषीभिर्धारयन्ति ॥ १७ ॥
tato ’dhastad vitale haro bhagavan hatakesvarah sva-parsada-bhuta-ganavrtah prajapati-sargopabrmhanaya bhavo bhavanya saha mithuni-bhuta aste yatah pravrtta sarit-pravara hataki nama bhavayor viryena yatra citrabhanur matarisvana samidhyamana ojasa pibati tan nisthyutam hatakakhyam suvarnam bhusanenasurendravarodhesu purusah saha purusibhir dharayanti.
- tatah
- the planet Atala
- adhastat
- beneath
- vitale
- on the planet
- harah
- Lord Siva
- bhagavan
- the most powerful personality
- hatakesvarah
- the master of gold
- sva-parsada
- by his own associates
- bhuta-gana
- who are ghostly living beings
- avrtah
- surrounded
- prajapati-sarga
- of the creation of Lord Brahma
- upabrmhanaya
- to increase the population
- bhavah
- Lord Siva
- bhavanya saha
- with his wife, Bhavani
- mithuni-bhutah
- being united in sex
- aste
- remains
- yatah
- from that planet (Vitala)
- pravrtta
- being emanated
- sarit-pravara
- the great river
- hataki
- Hataki
- nama
- named
- bhavayoh viryena
- due to the semen and ovum of Lord Siva and Bhavani
- yatra
- where
- citra-bhanuh
- the fire-god
- matarisvana
- by the wind
- samidhyamanah
- being brightly inflamed
- ojasa
- with great strength
- pibati
- drinks
- tat
- that
- nisthyutam
- spit out with a hissing sound
- hataka-akhyam
- named Hataka
- suvarnam
- gold
- bhusanena
- by different types of ornaments
- asura-indra
- of the great asuras
- avarodhesu
- in the homes
- purusah
- the males
- saha
- with
- purusibhih
- their wives and women
- dharayanti
- wear
The next plane below Atala is Vitala, wherein Lord Siva, who is known as the master of gold mines, lives with his personal associates, the ghosts and similar living entities. Lord Siva, as the progenitor, engages in sex with Bhavani, the progenitress, to produce living entities, and from the mixture of their vital fluid the river named Hataki is generated. When fire, being made to blaze by the wind, drinks of this river and then sizzles and spits it out, it produces gold called Hataka. The demons who live on that plane with their wives decorate themselves with various ornaments made from that gold, and thus they live there very happily.