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दक्षयज्ञविनाश (dakSayajJavinAza)

 
Mahabharata
English
Dakshayajñavināśa (do.) = Śiva: III, 1627.
[Daksha-yajña-vināśa(ḥ)]
(“the destruction of Daksha's sacrifice”). § 695b (Mokshadh.): Vaiśampāyana(!) said: In days of yore Daksha made arrangements for performing a sacrifice on the top of Himavat in that sacred region inhabited by Ṛ. and Si., G. and Aps., where the Gaṅgā issues out of the mountains. The gods, etc. (), came there. Ṛ. Dadhīca in wrath and grief said that this was no sacrifice, since Rudra (Śiva) was not adored in it, etc.
he, the great yogin, saw into the future
he beheld Śiva seated with Nārada and Umā. Daksha said he knew the eleven Rudras with lances and matted locks, but he did not know who this Maheśvara was. Daksha said that he would perform the sacrifice unto Vishṇu. Umā felt grief. Śiva said that it is to him as the Lord of Sacrifices that the chanters utter their praises in sacrifices, etc. (). Then he created from his mouth a terrible being (description), and Umā herself, assuming the terrible form of Mahākālī, proceeded in the company of that being, that was the living embodiment of Śiva's wrath and resembled Śiva himself, and came to be called Vīrabhadra. He then created from the pores of his body a large number of spirit-chiefs named Raumyas. These Rudras attacked the sacrifice (description
Ṛ., D., and men looked pale) and began to set fire to everything, and tore off the head of the sacrifice. D. and Brahmán and Daksha, informed by Vīrabhadra, hymned Śiva (), who, asked by Daksha, granted to him the boon that his sacrificial articles should be of use to him. Then Daksha knelt down and uttered his 1008 names (v. Daksha-proktaŚiva-sahasranāmastotra).