रूपं तन्महदाश्चर्यं विचक्ष्यागतसाध्वस: । ननाम दण्डवद्भूमौ प्रहृष्टात्मा प्रजापति: ॥ ४० ॥
rupam tan mahad-ascaryam vicaksyagata-sadhvasah nanama dandavad bhumau prahrstatma prajapatih
- rupam
- transcendental form
- tat
- that
- mahat-ascaryam
- greatly wonderful
- vicaksya
- seeing
- agata-sadhvasah
- in the beginning becoming afraid
- nanama
- offered obeisances
- danda-vat
- like a stick
- bhumau
- on the ground
- prahrsta-atma
- being pleased in his body, mind and soul
- prajapatih
- the prajapati known as Daksa.
Seeing that wonderful and effulgent form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Prajapati Daksa was first somewhat afraid, but then he was very pleased to see the Lord, and he fell to the ground like a stick (dandavat) to offer his respects to the Lord.