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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.35.10

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 35: Story of Gaṅgā & Umā: Restrained union and Umā’s curses. The Devas interrupt Śiva & Umā’s union, his released energy transforms the earth through Agni & Vāyu, Umā curses the Devas and the earth

In the sequence: the Devas fear that no one could withstand the resulting offspring → led by Brahmā, they ask Śiva to retain his fiery energy and return with Umā to austerity, protecting the worlds from destruction

1.35.10

na lokā dhārayiṣyanti tava tejaḥ surottama
brāhmeṇa tapasā yukto devyā saha tapaś cara

The worlds will not be able to bear your fiery seed, O best of gods; joined with brahmanical austerity, practise austerity together with the goddess.

Words: na — not; lokā — the worlds; dhārayiṣyanti — will bear, contain; tava — your; tejaḥ — fiery energy, seed; surottama — O best of gods; brāhmeṇa — with brahmanical; tapasā — austerity; yukto — joined, endowed; devyā — with the goddess; saha — together with; tapaś — austerity; cara — practise, perform

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.