SB 8.7.46

TEXT 46

TEXT

प्रस्कन्नं पिबतः पाणेर् यत्किञ्चिज्जगृहुः स्म तत् ।
वृश्चिकाहिविषौषध्यो दन्दशूकाश्च ये ऽपरे ॥ ४६ ॥

praskannam pibatah paner

yat kincij jagrhuh sma tat

vrscikahi-visausadhyo

dandasukas ca ye 'pare

praskannam-scattered here and there; pibatah-of Lord Siva while drinking; paneh-from the palm; yat-which; kincit-very little; jagrhuh-took the opportunity to drink; sma-indeed; tat-that; vrscika-the scorpions; ahi-the cobras; visa-ausadhyah-poisonous drugs; dandasukah ca-and animals whose bites are poisonous; ye-who; apare-other living entities.

TRANSLATION

Scorpions, cobras, poisonous drugs and other animals whose bites are poisonous took the opportunity to drink whatever little poison had fallen and scattered from Lord Siva's hand while he was drinking.

PURPORT

Mosquitoes, jackals, dogs and other varieties of dandasuka, or animals whose bites are poisonous, drank the poison of the samudra-manthana, the churned ocean, since it was available after it fell from the palms of Lord Siva.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Eighth Canto, Seventh Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled "Lord Siva Saves the Universe by Drinking Poison."