Obeisance to the Lord of mountain!
Obeisance to the householder Saint!
Obeisance to the perpetual Wearer of matted hair!
Obeisance to the celibate One!
Obeisance to the One with partially shaven head!
Obeisance to the Lord of pasus!
(Pasus are the individual souls or the Jiva.)
Obeisance to the One who performs penance in water!
Obeisance to the One who bestows yogic powers and prosperity! Obeisance to the One who is calm and tranquil!
Obeisance to the One who has controlled His sense-organs!
Obeisance to the One who causes dissolution!
Obeisance to the One who causes blessings!
Obeisance to the One who sustains the world!
Obeisance to Rudra!
Obeisance to Vasu!
Obeisance to Aditya!
Obeisance to Aswin!
Obeisance to the father of all!
Obeisance to the Supreme Being of perfect knowledge!
Obeisance to Visvedevas!
Obeisance to Sarva, Ugra, Siva, the bestower of boons!
Obeisance to the Terrible One!
Obeisance to the Commander-in-chief!
Obeisance to the Lord of pasus!
Obeisance to the Pure!
Obeisance to the Destroyer of enemies!
Obeisance to Sadyojata!
Obeisance to Mahadeva!
Obeisance to the Wonderful!
Obeisance to the Deity that bears the trident!
Obeisance to Pradhana!
Obeisance to the Incomprehensible!
Obeisance to the Effect!
Obeisance to the Cause!
Obeisance to You – Purusa!
Obeisance to the One who causes the wish of Purusa!
Obeisance to the One who causes the gunas of Pradhana to get into contact with Purusa!
Obeisance to the One who makes Prakrti and Purusa function! Obeisance to the One who is the doer of what is done and what is not done!
Obeisance to the One who bestows union on the act and its fruit!
Obeisance to the Knower of the time of all!
Obeisance to the One who restrains all!
Obeisance to the One who disturbs the equilibrium of gunas! Obeisance to the One who bestows means of subsistence!
Obeisance to You, the lord of the chiefs of deities!
Obeisance to You, the creator of living beings!
O Siva! Be gentle in face to be looked at!
O Lord! Be gentle to us!
Brahma continued:
On being eulogized thus by all deities, the Lord of the universe, the Lord of Uma spoke thus to the immortal beings.
Lord Rudra said:
O Deities! I am both harsh and gentle to you. Tell me the boons you wish to choose. I shall grant them undoubtedly.
Brahma said:
Thereafter, the deities bowed down to the three-eyed Lord and said to Him.
‘O Lord! Let this boon be retained by You alone. When there is any need, You may grant the boon desired by us.’
Brahma said:
After saying ‘let it be so’, the Lord bade farewell to the deities and others. Thereafter He entered His abode together with the Pramathas.
(Pramathas are the attendants of Siva, known as ganas.)
Brahma said:
The Lord Siva who removed the eyes of Bhaga said.
‘So be it!’
The Patriarch Daksha bowed to the three-eyed Lord Siva, the presiding Deity of virtue. After securing the boon from the Lord Siva, Daksha knelt on the ground and eulogized
the bull-bannered Lord by His thousand and eight names.
O excellent Brahmins! On seeing the virility of Siva thus, Daksha joined his palms in reverence and bowed down. Then he began to eulogize.
Obeisance to You, o Lord of the chiefs of deities!
Obeisance to You, o slayer of Bala!
O Lord of deities! You are the most excellent one in strength; You are worshipped by deities and demons!
O thousand-eyed One!
O One of deformed eyes!
O Three-eyed-one!
O One fond of the overlord of Akshas!
O You have hands and feet all round!
O You have eyes, heads and mouths all round!
O You have ears all round!
O You stand enveloping everything in the world!
O You are Sanku-karna (pike-eared)!
O You are Maha-karna (long-eared)!
O You are Kumbha-karna (pot-eared)!
O You are Arna-valaya (ocean-dweller)!
O You are Gajendra-karna (elephant-eared)!
O You are Go-karna (cow-eared)!
O You are Sata-karna (hundred-eared)!
Obeisance to You, Sata-udara (hundred-bellied)!
O You are Sata-avarta (having hundred curly locks of hairs)!
O You are Sata-jihva (having hundred tongues)!
O You are Sanata (eternal)!
O One who is worshipped by the gayatrins, singing songs of praise! O One who is worshipped by those who have stopped performing any acts!