स्कन्ने रेतसि सोऽपश्यदात्मानं देवमायया । जडीकृतं नृपश्रेष्ठ सन्न्यवर्तत कश्मलात् ॥ ३५ ॥
skanne retasi so ’pasyad atmanam deva-mayaya jadikrtam nrpa-srestha sannyavartata kasmalat
- skanne
- when fully discharged
- retasi
- the semen
- sah
- Lord Siva
- apasyat
- saw
- atmanam
- his own self
- deva-mayaya
- by the maya of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- jadikrtam
- had become victimized as a fool
- nrpa-srestha
- O best of kings (Maharaja Pariksit)
- sannyavartata
- restrained himself further
- kasmalat
- from illusion.
O Maharaja Pariksit, best of kings, when Lord Siva had fully discharged semen, he could see how he himself had been victimized by the illusion created by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Thus he restrained himself from any further maya.