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| Temples & Legends Of India |
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her seat on the ground, closed her eyes, and reduced her body to ashes by the yogic fire
produced internally by abstract meditation on Siva."13 Siva, overcome by grief, destroyed Daksa’s sac rifice"14 and wandered hither and thither in frantic sorrow carrying her dead body on his head. Brahma and other gods grew alarmed and approached Visnu to put a stop to Siva’s penance and save the world from destruction. Brahma, Visnu and Sani then conspired to deprive Siva of his wife’s body and free him from infatuation. These three gods, thereupon, entered into the dead body of Sati and disposed of it limb by limb. Atha sokavimudhatma vilapan vrsabhadhvajah Jagama pracyadesamstu skandhe krtva satisavam Unmattavadgacchatosya drstva bhavam divaukasah Brahmadyascintayamasuh savabhramsanakarmani Haragatrasya samsparsacchavo nayam, visirnatam Gamisyati katham tasmadasya bhramso, bhavisyati Iti sancintayantaste Brahma visnu- sanaiscarah Satisavantarvivisuradrsya yogamayaya Pravisyatha savam devah Khandasaste satisavam Bhutale patayamasuh sthane visesatah. (Kalika Purana, Ch. 18). 13. Quoted from Great Women of India, pp. 232-233. 14. "It may be worth mentioning, as a picturesque circumstance, that when the woods on the southern slopes of the Bhutan and Aka hills catch fire in the dry winter season, and can be seen glowing or blazing from great distances, the people to this day assert that the far-off glare against the sky is caused by the rising ashes of Daksa’s interrupted sacrifice." Hasting’s Encyclo- paedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. H, p. 132. |
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