Verse 46

⁴¹Having spoken so to Bhavani, the revered one, the maker of the world, set about the eating of that poison; and she, who knew his power, agreed to it. ⁴²Then the great god, the maker of beings, took the spreading Halahala poison into the palm of his hand and ate it, out of pity. ⁴³And to him too that filth of the water showed its own strength: it turned his throat blue, and that became an ornament upon the good one. ⁴⁴Good people are for the most part burnt by the burning of the world; and that is the highest worship of the Person, the self of all. ⁴⁵Hearing of that act of Sambhu's, the god of gods, the open-handed one, the creatures and the daughter of Daksa and Brahma and him whom nothing hinders spoke well of it.

⁴⁶Whatever spilled from his hand as he drank, the scorpions and the snakes and the poisonous plants and the other biting things took that for themselves.