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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.35.15

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: Śiva agrees but asks who can receive the energy already stirred from its place → the Devas answer that the earth will bear it. Śiva releases his energy, filling the earth, mountains, and forests

1.35.15

evam uktās tato devāḥ pratyūcur vṛṣabhadhvajam
yat tejaḥ kṣubhitaṃ hy etat tad dharā dhārayiṣyati

Thus addressed, the gods then replied to the bull-bannered one (Śiva): “This energy that has been stirred up — the earth will bear it.”

Words: evam uktās — thus addressed; tato — then; devāḥ — the gods; pratyūcur — replied; vṛṣabhadhvajam — the bull-bannered one (Śiva); yat — which; tejaḥ — energy; kṣubhitaṃ — stirred up; hy — indeed; etat — this; tad — that, it; dharā — the earth; dhārayiṣyati — will bear, hold

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.