शिलाद उवाच ।। महेश यदि तुष्टोऽसि यदि वा वरदश्च मे ।। इच्छामि त्वत्समं पुत्रं मृत्युहीनमयोनिजम् ।। ३१।।
Śilāda said:— O lord Śiva, if you are delighted, if you are ready to grant boons, I wish for a son equal to you, devoid of death and not born of a womb.
Śiva said:— O brahmin, O sage, formerly I have been propitiated by means of penance by Brahmā, by sages and by leading gods and urged to take an incarnation.
O sage, I shall become your son by the name of Nandin. I shall not be born of a womb. Thus you shall be my father, of me who am the father of the worlds.
Nandīśvara said:— After addressing these words to the sage who stood waiting after bowing, the merciful lord Śiva gave him his directions and vanished there itself along with Pārvatī.