Matsyapurana 13.13

13.13

kimarthaṃ tāta bhartā me yajñe 'sminnābhimantritaḥ
ayogya iti tāmāha dakṣo yajñeṣu śūlabhṛt //

Sûta said that when Dakṣa invited all the Devas to take part in the great sacrifice that he performed, Satî asked him the reason of his having excluded her husband, Śiva. Dakṣa answered that Śiva was not invited, because he was not considered worthy, since he always remained besmeared with the ashes of the funeral pyre and armed with his trident. He, being the destroyer of the universe also, it would have been utterly inauspicious to invite Śiva on the occasion of that big sacrifice. Hearing those words of Dakṣa, Satî was enraged, and said she would give up the body begotten of him. Satî continuing, added that, in the course of the performance of his sacrifice, Dakṣa would be killed by Her Lord—Mahâdeva—and he would again have to take birth as the son of the ten Pitṛis. After that, Satî produced a blazing fire by Her yogic power in the sacrificial pool, and began to consume Herself into it, seeing which all the Devas, Asuras, Kinnaras and Gandharvâs present there, asked what was it due to? Dakṣa became very sad and saluting, said.—12-17.