SB 10.89.2
Devanāgarī
तस्य जिज्ञासया ते वै भृगुं ब्रह्मसुतं नृप । तज्ज्ञप्त्यै प्रेषयामासु: सोऽभ्यगाद् ब्रह्मण: सभाम् ॥ २ ॥
Text
tasya jijñāsayā te vai bhṛguṁ brahma-sutaṁ nṛpa taj-jñaptyai preṣayām āsuḥ so ’bhjagād brahmaṇaḥ sabhām
Synonyms
tasya—about this;jijñāsayā—with the desire of knowing;te—they;vai—indeed;bhṛgum—Bhṛgu Muni;brahma-sutam—son of Brahmā;nṛpa—O King;tat—this;jñaptyai—to find out;preṣayāmāsuḥ—they sent;saḥ—he;abhyagāt—went;brahmaṇaḥ—of Lord Brahmā;sabhām—to the court.
Translation
Eager to resolve this question, O King, the sages sent Lord Brahmā’s son Bhṛgu to find the answer. First he went to his father’s court.
Purport
As Śrīla Prabhupāda explains in Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead: “The plan decided upon by the sages was for Bhṛgu to test which one of the predominating deities possessed the quality of goodness in full.” One who is in the mode of goodness possesses such qualities as tolerance and equanimity, whereas those conducted by the modes of passion and ignorance are prone to easily lose their temper.