“Hear, all you guests and great sages, who have reviled Shiva or heard him reviled! Right soon shall each one of you reap your due reward, and my father too shall dearly rue the day!

Wherever blasphemy is heard, spoken against the saints, or Shiva, or Lakshmi’s lord Vishnu, there it is ordained that, if it be possible, the reveller’s tongue should be torn out, or if not, that one should run away closing one’s ears.

Shankara, the demon Tripura’s foe, is the universal spirit, father of the world and friend of all; it is whom my besotted father vilifies, and this body of mine has sprung from Daksha’s seed.

Therefore laying on my heart Lord Shiva, who bears the moon upon his forehead and the bull upon his banner, I shall immediately quit this body!’ So saying, she burnt her body in the sacrificial fire. A plaintive cry rose from the whole assembly.

Hearing of Sati’s death, Shiva’s attendants began to destroy the oblations. Seeing the sacrifice being destroyed, the great sage Bhrigu protected it.

When Shiva got all the news, in his wrath he dispatched Virabhadra, who went and made havoc of the sacrificial offerings and punished all the gods according to their deserts.

As is well-known to the world, Daksha met the same fate that all Shiva’s enemies must meet. The story is known throughout the world, and so I have related it in brief.