Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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Benediction
37. Bow to Him who still has His third eye, when somehow missing (Ihasia) in its place, substituted by Visņu with His own eye-leaf, given by Him as a flowery offering (in deep devotion ).
38. Victorious is the line of poison's lustre, looking like His head's shadow collected at the bottom of His throat, on account of the (refulgent) moon's light overhead.
39. Bow to the Moon of the Three-eyed God (Siva ) who stands reduced to the size of) a digit, his heart being completely dedicated to the propitiation of Gauri and Siva, who stay (blended) only by their bodily halves.
40. Bow to Him whose decorative skullbone on His head, drank for long, feeling very thirsty, as it were, the stream of the God's River (Gañgā ), by means of an oyster-shell of the Moon's crescent, joined to its mouth.
41. Bow to the Pinākin's (Siva's) forehead-eye, with its rolling, reddish pupils, in which the lump of the Universe, made a sacrificial offering at the time of the world's destruction, is still blazing (in flames ), as it were.
42. Bow to Him (Kārtikeya ) whom Cupid would avoid, ( apprehending) short shrift at His hands, as from any member of) His family; ( and hence ) even to-day he does not shoot his shaft at Him through fear.
43. Victorious is that Goddess, by whose foot, adorned with anklets, the Asoka tree in the form of the Demon Mahisa, being struck on his trunk ( shoulder ), put blossoms of blood.
44. May the eyes of the revered Lady (Pārvati) who blushed at the first embrace of her Lord Siva, give you happiness, ( although they had ) little strength (left in them ), being seized by the venomous lustre of His throat.
45. Pay your homage to the rambling of Kālī, the veritable black Night of Destruction, on the eve of the world's dissolution, (brightened ) by multifarious skulls (big and small ) decorating Her body and thus looking like a big gathering of the millions of odd-sized moons ( shining) on all nights.