The Ganas Break Upon the Yajna
Bala Kanda, Doha 64
Doha 64 · Movement 2 of 2
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News of Sati's death reaches Shiva's attendants. Grief becomes fury, and the ganas surge into the sacrificial ground, tearing through the structures of a rite that had made contempt part of its order.
Altars crack, vessels overturn, and the assembly scatters before their wrath. What had appeared inviolable under mantra and rank suddenly reveals its fragility.
Seeing the yajna collapse, the sage Bhrigu acts. He kindles a protective rite against the advancing host, setting ritual power against the force released by Sati's death. The ritual has become a battlefield of consequence.
Broken offerings cover the earth as Bhrigu raises protection against Shiva's storm.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 64
Two unnamed representative attendants disrupt vessels beside the sacrifice while Bhrigu stands protectively by the altar.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 85, 86 · printed pages 83, 84. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-065. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- After hearing of Sati's death, Shiva's ganas begin disrupting the sacrifice
- Seeing the sacrifice disrupted, Bhrigu protects it; the verse does not specify a particular protective rite or shielding the gods
Artistic choices
- Select independent non-graphic disruption/protection, no Sati scene
- Two representative unnamed attendants' conventional human appearances, Bhrigu's newly imagined distinct long-white-bearded appearance, selected number, clothing, shifted tray and vessels, open protective palm, unlit square altar, pillar, tree sprig and coral field added; protective posture does not assert specific ritual
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
सती मरनु सुनि संभु गन लगे करन मख खीस। जग्य बिधंस बिलोकि भृगु रच्छा कीन्हि मुनीस।।64।।
Hearing of Sati's death, Shiva's ganas began to wreck the sacrificial rite. Seeing the yajna being destroyed, the sage Bhrigu performed a protective ritual.