Doha 92
Śiva’s peculiar marriage procession and preparations for the wedding (undertaken by the other party)
सिवहि संभु गन करहिं सिंगारा। जटा मुकुट अहि मौरु सँवारा॥ कुंडल कंकन पहिरे ब्याला। तन बिभूति पट केहरि छाला॥१॥
ससि ललाट सुंदर सिर गंगा। नयन तीनि उपबीत भुजंगा॥ गरल कंठ उर नर सिर माला। असिव बेष सिवधाम कृपाला॥२॥
कर त्रिसूल अरु डमरु बिराजा। चले बसहँ चढ़ि बाजहिं बाजा॥ देखि सिवहि सुरत्रिय मुसुकाहीं। बर लायक दुलहिनि जग नाहीं॥३॥
बिष्नु बिरंचि आदि सुरब्राता। चढ़ि चढ़ि बाहन चले बराता॥ सुर समाज सब भाँति अनूपा। नहिं बरात दूलह अनुरूपा॥४॥
Meaning
The attendants of Śiva began to adorn their lord. His matted locks were formed into a crown and decked with a crest of serpents. He had serpents for His ear-rings and bracelets, smeared His person with ashes and wrapped a lion’s skin round His waist. (1) He bore the crescent on His charming brow and the river Gaṅgā on the crown of His head and had three eyes and a serpent for the sacred thread. His throat was blue with the poison swallowed by him at the beginning of creation and had a wreath of human skulls on His chest. Thus clad in a ghastly attire, He was nonetheless an embodiment of blessings and merciful to the core. (2) A trident and a Ḍamarū (a small drum shaped like an hour-glass) adorned His hands. Śiva rode on a bull while bands were being played. Female divinities smiled to see Him. “The world has no bride worthy of the bridegroom,” they said to one another. (3) Viṣṇu, Brahmā and hosts of other gods joined the bridegroom’s procession and rode on their respective vehicles. The gathering of the immortals was incomparable in every respect; the marriage procession, however, was hardly worthy of the bridegroom. (4)
बिष्नु कहा अस बिहसि तब बोलि सकल दिसिराज। बिलग बिलग होइ चलहु सब निज निज सहित समाज॥९२॥
Meaning
God Viṣṇu then called all the guardians of the different quarters and humorously said, “Everyone of you should march separately, each with his own retinue. (92)
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