Daksha pleased Rudra, O Bharata, with that present. Mahadeva, thus pleased, made that bull his career, And it was after the form of that bull that Mahadeva adopted the emblem on the standard floating on his battlecar. Therefore it is that Rudra came to be known as the bullbannered deity.
प्रसादयामास मनस्तेन रुद्रस्य भारत। प्रीतश्चापि महादेवश्चकार वृषभं तदा॥ ध्वजं च वाहनं चैव तस्मात् स वृषभध्वजः।