Shloka 32
Sati's Death & Virabhadra — Sati’s Death and the Assault on Daksha’s Sacrifice: Virabhadra versus the Devas
वसवो ऽष्टौ महाभागा ग्रहा नव सुदारुणाः इन्द्राद्या द्वादशादित्या रुद्रास्त्वेकादशैव हि
vasavo 'ṣṭau mahābhāgā grahā nava sudāruṇāḥ indrādyā dvādaśādityā rudrāstvekādaśaiva hi
അവിടെ എട്ട് വസുക്കൾ—മഹാഭാഗ്യവർ; ഒമ്പത് അതിഭീകര ഗ്രഹങ്ങൾ; ഇന്ദ്രനാദിയായ പന്ത്രണ്ട് ആദിത്യർ; കൂടാതെ തീർച്ചയായും പതിനൊന്ന് രുദ്രന്മാർ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു।
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FAQs
The verse frames the yajña as a cosmic institution involving multiple layers of divine governance—elemental (Vasus), solar/order (Ādityas), planetary fate/constraint (Grahas), and transformative power (Rudras). It implies that dharma is upheld by a coordinated cosmic ecology, not a single authority.
This is ancillary cosmological cataloguing that supports narrative (carita) and also touches sarga-type material by listing deva-classes that function in creation and maintenance.
Enumerations like this map the sacrifice onto the cosmos: yajña becomes a microcosm where time (Ādityas), material supports (Vasus), destiny/affliction (Grahas), and dissolution/transformation (Rudras) all converge—foreshadowing that disruption at the yajña reverberates through all cosmic functions.