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Durga, the most frightful to ward
off all the untoward that might likely visit to frustrate the attempt. Taking
her seat on the mount nearby, she did what was bid. Lord Siva created a big
ocean there at the exact spot of meditation to disturb her penance with its
turbulent tempests and dreadful aquatic animals. Mother Gouri remained unmoved,
but when the trouble shot up to the highest extreme, Durga drank up the entire
jalarasi with animals in it. Calm returned anon. The tapas thus went on
unhindered. Impressed with the unshakable constancy, Lord Siva gave darsan on
the Pournami day of the Pushya masa falling in Pushyami Nakshatra and fulfilled
her desire of learning the Siva Panchakshari Mantra from the Lord himself. No
sooner did she receive it than she practised it in strict accordance with it
tenets. She emerged soon and appeared in her unparalleled physical radiance and
incomparable intellectual effulgence on account of Sivagnana permeating her
entire physical frame.
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