अध्याय १२
श्लोक 1
मत्स्य-पुराण १२ अथान्विषन्तो राजानं भ्रातरस् तस्य मानवाः इक्ष्वाकुप्रमुखा जग्मुस् तदा शरवणान्तिकम्
matsya-purāṇa 12 athānviṣanto rājānaṃ bhrātaras tasya mānavāḥ ikṣvākupramukhā jagmus tadā śaravaṇāntikam
हिन्दी अर्थ
हो। धर्मज्ञे! इस निखिल ब्रह्माण्डमें-समस्त चराचर वस्तुओंमें कुछ भी तुमसे रहित नहीं है अर्थात् सबमें तुम्हारी सत्ता व्याप्त है । मुझपर कृपा करो । इस अवसरपर तुम्हें मेरा परित्याग नहीं करना चाहिए।' (दक्षके इस प्रकार प्रार्थना करनेपर) देवीने कहा--' दक्ष! मैंने जिस कार्यका आरम्भ कर दिया है, उसे तो निःसंदेह अवश्य ही पूर्ण करूँगी, किंतु त्रिशूलधारी शिवजीद्वारा यज्ञ-विध्वंस हो जानेपर उनको प्रसन्न करनेके लिये तुम मृत्युलोकमें लोक-सृष्टिकी इच्छासे
English
Suta said that sometime after Ikswaku, &c., the brothers of Ha, set out in quest of him. In their wanderings they chanced to piiss by the Saravana, where they came across the rnare, on which was the saddle, glittering with jewels. On seeing the mare with that jewelled saddle, they all recognised it to be CijandraprabliA, the famous charger of the Monarch Ila. They were highly astonished to find the charger transformed into a mare, and questioned the priest Maitra-Varuna (Vasitha) about it. The sage began to explain to them tlie m3tery, through his powers of Toga. The sage Vasi<tha said that iva and P4rvatl had determined that