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
اور وِشویدیَو اور سادھْی؛ سِدھ، گندھرو اور پَنّگ (ناگ)؛ یَکش اور کِمپُرُش؛ نیز خَگ (پرندے) اور کْرَدھر نامی جماعت بھی وہاں موجود تھی۔
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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.