Shiva Purana

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तव भावपरीक्षार्थं द्विजो भूत्वाहमागतः॥ व्याघ्रेण या परिग्रस्ता साक्षाद्देवी शिवा हि सा ॥ ५६॥

sanskrit

It was to test your feeling? and emotions that I assumed the form of a brahmin and approached you. She who was seized by the tiger is the goddess Śivā herself.

english translation

tava bhAvaparIkSArthaM dvijo bhUtvAhamAgataH॥ vyAghreNa yA parigrastA sAkSAddevI zivA hi sA ॥ 56॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript

siva.sh/siva-purana/saturda-samhita/27/56

तव भावपरीक्षार्थं द्विजो भूत्वाहमागतः॥ व्याघ्रेण या परिग्रस्ता साक्षाद्देवी शिवा हि सा ॥ ५६॥

sanskrit

It was to test your feeling? and emotions that I assumed the form of a brahmin and approached you. She who was seized by the tiger is the goddess Śivā herself.

english translation

tava bhAvaparIkSArthaM dvijo bhUtvAhamAgataH॥ vyAghreNa yA parigrastA sAkSAddevI zivA hi sA ॥ 56॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript