Shloka 11
प्रजापति दक्ष जब यज्ञ कर रहे थे, उस समय उनका यज्ञ आरम्भ होनेपर कुपित हुए भगवान् शंकरने निर्भय होकर उनके यज्ञको अपने बाणोंसे बींध डाला और धनुषसे बाण छोड़कर गम्भीर स्वरमें सिंहनाद किया
prajāpati dakṣaḥ yadā yajñaṃ karoti sma, tadā tasya yajñasya ārambhe kupitaḥ bhagavān śaṅkaraḥ nirbhayaḥ san tasya yajñaṃ svabāṇaiḥ viddhvā, dhanuṣā bāṇān visṛjya gambhīra-svareṇa siṃhanādaṃ cakāra.
Vāyu said: When Prajāpati Dakṣa was conducting a sacrifice, at the very commencement of that rite the Lord Śaṅkara, angered, stood fearless. Piercing the sacrifice with his arrows, he loosed shafts from his bow and, in a deep voice, let out a lion-like roar—signaling the collapse of a ritual that had turned into an affront to divine order and respect.
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Ritual power without humility and proper reverence becomes ethically hollow; when a sacred act is driven by pride or exclusion, it invites disruption. The verse frames Śiva’s intervention as a moral correction: dharma is not upheld by ceremony alone but by right intention and respect.
As Dakṣa begins his sacrificial rite, Śiva—angered—arrives fearlessly, symbolically ‘pierces’ the sacrifice with arrows, and roars like a lion. The imagery conveys the forceful interruption and undoing of the yajña, marking a dramatic turning point in the Dakṣa-yajña episode.