Shloka 33
Sati's Death & Virabhadra — Sati’s Death and the Assault on Daksha’s Sacrifice: Virabhadra versus the Devas
विश्वेदेवाश्च साध्याश्च सिद्धगन्धर्वपन्नगाः यक्षाः किंपुरुषाश्चैव खगाश्क्रधरास्तथा
viśvedevāśca sādhyāśca siddhagandharvapannagāḥ yakṣāḥ kiṃpuruṣāścaiva khagāśkradharāstathā
และยังมีวิศวเทวะกับสาธยะ มีสิทธะ คันธรรพ และพนนคะ (นาค) มียักษะและกิมปุรุษ ตลอดจนคหะ (หมู่นก) และหมู่ครธระก็อยู่ ณ ที่นั้น
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FAQs
The sacrifice is portrayed as a universal forum drawing gods, perfected beings, and nature-classes alike—suggesting that dharma is not limited to human society. When such a universal rite is corrupted, the disturbance affects all orders of beings.
Supportive cosmological listing within a narrative (carita). It serves as world-building—showing the breadth of creation’s inhabitants—rather than a genealogical (vaṃśa) passage.
By stacking categories from high gods to liminal beings (Nāgas, Yakṣas, bird-classes), the text emphasizes totality: the yajña is a cosmic hinge. Vīrabhadra’s arrival, therefore, is not a local quarrel but a corrective event with universal witness.