Verse 1.3.10

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.3.10:

कर्णौ पिधाय रुद्रोऽसौ स-क्रोधम् अवदद् भृशम् ।
सर्व-वैष्णव-मूर्धन्यो विष्णु-भक्ति-प्रवर्तकः ॥ १० ॥

karṇau pidhāya rudro'sau sa-krodham avadad bhṛśam |
sarva-vaiṣṇava-mūrdhanyo viṣṇu-bhakti-pravartakaḥ || 10 ||

Thereafter, Śrī Śiva became eager to converse with the preeminent Vaiṣṇava, Śrī Nārada, then stopped his dancing and singing. Accompanied by some of his dear tapasvis, Śrī Nārada sat down in a vīrāsana pose.

Śrī Nārada offered obeisance to Pārvatī’s prāṇanātha, Śrī Mahādeva, and devoutly began to recite the Vedic mantra Rudraṣaḍ-aṅgaka and other prayers that perceive him as Jagadīśvara, the supreme controller. Then he began to sing and expound upon the profound mercy of Śrī Kṛṣṇa towards him.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Śrī Rudra is the crest jewel of all Vaiṣṇavas, for example, sarveṣu vaiṣṇaveṣu murddhanyaḥ śreṣṭhaḥ, vaiṣṇavānāṃ maheśvarah: “Maheśvara is the topmost leading superior amongst Vaiṣṇavas,” because he is the pioneer or inaugurator of viṣṇu-bhakti. Despite being an avatāra of Bhagavān and himself viṣṇu-tattva, he is the avatāra who inaugurates bhagavad-bhakti throughout the world. Thus he is widely acclaimed as the topmost Vaiṣṇava, and it is reasonably justifiable to describe him as such.