Shloka 45
Śatarudrīya-prabhāva and Rudra’s Supremacy (शतरुद्रीयप्रभावः)
तस्य चाक्ष्णो महत् तेजो येनायं मथितो गिरि: । त्वत्प्रियार्थ च मे देवि प्रकृतिस्थ: पुनः कृत:
tasya cākṣṇo mahat tejo yenāyaṁ mathito giriḥ | tvatpriyārthaṁ ca me devi prakṛtisthaḥ punaḥ kṛtaḥ ||
「その眼――第三の眼――の大いなる光焔が、この山をかき乱し、揺り動かしたのだ。だが女神よ、そなたのため、そなたを喜ばせるために、山々の王ヒマヴァーンを再び本来の静まった姿へと戻した。」
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Immense power is not merely destructive; it is ethically completed by restoration and restraint. Śiva’s act shows that divine might, when guided by devotion and concern for order, both disrupts and then re-establishes balance.
Maheśvara explains that the tremendous radiance from his eye shook/churned the mountain, but then—out of regard for the Goddess—he returned the mountain (Himavān) to its normal, natural state.