Skandapurana 7.17.27_29

7.17.27_29

prasāritakaro devo nyastajānukamaṇḍalaḥ38 .
prasaritakaro vyomni divākara ivābhavat . .28. .
japtvā tu paramaṃ japyaṃ trivedarasasaṃbhavama .
bhavaḥ pranṛttya39ccatura40ścaturaṃ caturānana41 . .29. .
bharttāraṃ vīkṣya nṛtyantaṃ42 viṣaktakarapallavam .
sahadharmacarī devī bharttāraṃ sānvanṛtyata43 . .8.162.3 0 . .
dampatī vīkṣya nṛtyantau sāṭṭahāsaṃ gaṇāgraṇīḥ .
prānṛtyata44 tato nandī devayoḥ prītimāvahan . .3 1 . .
devamambāñca nṛtyantau nandinañca samīkṣya tu .
pramathā nīlameghābhāḥ45 pranṛttāstūryanisvanaiḥ ..3 2. .
tato bheryo jharjharāśca46 kikhirānakamaṇḍukāḥ47 .
āḍambarā ḍiṇḍimāśca śaṃkhāścaiva prasasvanuḥ . . 33 ..
muhurmuhuḥ sādhayate nṛttaṃ caturamambikā .
nandī visṛjate48 hāsaṃ pramathā nedurulbaṇāḥ . . 34. .
tattūryavaraśabdāḍhyaṃ49 śivāśaniravākulam .
sandhyāmukhaṃ babhau raudraṃ vaḍavāmukhasannibham . .35..
nanṛturjahasuścānye50 jajapuśca tathāpare .
jaguścānyetimadhuraṃ gandharvā iva pārṣadāḥ . .3 6 . .
tatombaratalāpīḍe pūrṇavimbetinirmale .
mṛgāṅke hyudite candre candrāvayavabhūṣaṇaḥ51 ..37..
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36 anvāste - ka. . 37 lokasaṃsthāntu pālayan - gha . . . . bhipālanā (nī m (nāt) -kaḥ. 38 jānunyasta(?), kamaṇḍaluḥ - ka kha. . 39 prahṛṣṭa - ka. . 40 catura - kha. . 41 ... ñcaturānanaḥ - ka. kha., pranṛtyac caturaḥ (?) . 42 nṛttantaṃ - ka. ga. . 43... sata - kha. . 44 pranṛtyata - gha. . 45 nilameghābhaḥ - ka. . 46 marmarāśca - kha. . 47 kikharānaka - ka. kha., meṇḍukā - ga. . 48 visasṛje - kha. . 49 kharaśabdāḍhya - ka. kha. ga. gha . 50 narnaturjahasuścānye - ka. kha. ga. . 51... bhūṣaṇe - ka. .
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The god stretched out his hands, having rested his knees and his water-pot; / with extended rays he became like the sun shining in the sky. (28) / Having recited the supreme prayer born of the essence of the three Vedas, / Bhava, skillful [and] with his four faces, began to dance dexterously. (29) / Seeing her husband dancing with tender sprout-like hands swaying, / the goddess, his companion in sacred duty, danced along with her husband. (30) / Seeing the couple dancing with loud bursts of laughter, the leader of the gaṇas, / Nandī, then danced, bringing delight to both deities. (31) / Seeing the god and the Mother dancing, and Nandī as well, / the pramathas, resembling dark blue clouds, danced to the sounds of musical instruments. (32) / Then kettledrums and jharjharas, kikhiras, ānakas, and maṇḍukas, / āḍambaras, small drums, and conchs sounded forth. (33) / Again and again Ambikā accomplished a skillful dance; / Nandī gave vent to laughter, and the fierce pramathas roared aloud. (34) / Filled with the sounds of those excellent musical instruments, tumultuous with the noise of Śiva's thunderbolt, / the onset of twilight blazed terribly like the mouth of the submarine fire. (35) / Some danced, others laughed, and others muttered prayers; / yet others among the attendants sang very sweetly, like gandharvas. (36) / Then, as the moon, the crest of the vault of the sky, with full disk and exceedingly clear, / the deer-marked one, had risen, [he who is] adorned with the crescent moon (37)