Once more, Mahadeva, that thorough adept in speech, addressed Daksha and said to him these words fraught with great consolation:-Be you the foremost of all creatures in the world.
अथैनमब्रवीद् वाक्यं लोकस्याधिपतिर्भवः। आश्वासनकरं वाक्यं वाक्यविद्वाक्य सम्मतम्॥