Verse 35

²⁹Though her husband had made it plain to her in this way, her senses churned by desire, she caught hold of the brahmin sage's garment, shameless as a low woman. ³⁰Then, seeing his wife would not be held back from that wrong act, he bowed to what was fated and lay with her in a place apart. ³¹Afterwards he touched water, held in his breath, kept his speech still, and meditating, muttered over the stainless everlasting light of Brahman. ³²But Diti, ashamed of that blameworthy act, Bharata, came up to the brahmin sage and spoke to him with her face bent down. ³³Brahmin, let the bull among beings not kill this fruit of my womb; for Rudra is the lord of beings, and it is against him that I have done the wrong.

³⁴Salutation to Rudra, the great god, the fierce one, the giver of rain; to the kindly one who has laid the rod down, and to the wrathful one who holds the rod up. ³⁵Let him be gracious to us, our sister's husband, the revered one whose kindness is wide, the god, husband of Sati, gracious to women, whom even a hunter would pity.