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भवभार्गवसमागम (bhavabhArgavasamAgama)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Bhava-Bhārgava-samāgama(ḥ)]
(“the meeting of Śiva and Uśanas”). § 701b (Mokshadh.): Bhīshma said: Uśanas became engaged in doing what was disagreeable to the gods for an adequate cause (v. the note of PCR., p. 524). Kubera, the chief of Y. and Rā., is the lord of the treasury of Indra. Uśanas, by yoga, entered Kubera, and deprived him of his liberty and robbed him of all his wealth. Kubera repaired to Śiva, who prepared to slay Uśanas with his lance. Uśanas placed himself on the point of Śiva's lance. Śiva bent the lance with his hand (pāṇinā samanāmayat), whence it was called Pināka, and threw Uśanas into his mouth and swallowed him, and Uśanas began to wander there. Mahādeva entered the waters and remained there like an immovable stake of wood for millions of years. Then he rose from the mighty lake and Brahmán approached him. Śiva saw that Uśanas within his stomach (Nīl.) had become greater in consequence of those penances of his. He once more betook himself to yoga-meditation. Uśanas, filled with anxiety, began to wander within his stomach, and to sing his praises
but Rudra had stopped all his outlets
at last he let him go out through his urethra. Thence he came to be called Śukra, and became unable to attain the central point of the firmament. Umā prevented Śiva from slaying him, and Uśanas became her son (XII, 290).