An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s3.64

c5.s3.64

[Dakṣha-yajña - vināça(ḥ)] (“the destruction of Daksha’s sacrifice”). § 695b (Mokshadh.): Vaiçampāyana(!) said: In days of yore Daksha made arrangements for performing a sacrifice on the top of *Himavat* in that sacred region inhabited by R. and Si., and Aps., where the *Gaṅgā* issues out of the mountains. The gods, etc. (*a*), came there. R. *Dadhīca* in wrath and grief said that this was no sacrifice, since *Rudra* (Çiva) was not adored in it, etc.; he, the great *yogin*, saw into the future; he beheld Çiva seated with *Nārada* and *Umā*. Daksha said he knew the eleven *Rudras* with lances and matted locks, but he did not know who this *Maheçvara* was. Daksha said that he would perform the sacrifice unto Vishnu. *Umā* felt grief. *Çiva* said that it is to him as the Lord of Sacrifices that the chanters utter their praises in sacrifices, etc. (*β*). 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 *Çiva’s* wrath and resembled *Çiva* himself, and came to be called *Virabhadra*. He then created from the pores of his body a large number of spirit-chiefs named *Raumyas*. These *Rudras* attacked the sacrifice (description; R., D., and men looked pale) and began to set fire to everything, and tore off the head of the sacrifice. D. and *Brahmān* and Daksha, informed by *Virabhadra*, hymned *Çiva* (*γ*), 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-prokta-Çiva-sahasranāmastotra).