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Praise of the Vindhya Goddess
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mountain Vindhya, O Blissful Goddess, by the grace of your having accepted ) a residence in its cave.”
291. “Very nice and charming you appear, O Nārāyani, in your residence (temple ), when strolling about, the flocks of swans collect at the jingling sounds of your anklets, (evincing ) a passion, as it were, for the cemetery strewn with skull-bones.”
292. “ Physically only, you stay in just half of the body of the Crescent-decorated God (Siva); in his heart, however, O Sankarī, you have complete, undivided scope (to occupy). ”
293. “The Buffalo-Demon's horn was pulled out (broken) by you (with a kick ), as it forcibly extracted (from your foot ) the circular (kumdala) jewelled anklet (tulūkoti) and placed it as a ring, as it were, on the (remaining) broken part of his horn.”
294. “ Your door of the temple ), with offerings of blood placed at various spots, appears to be strewn with the pieces of (the body of ) Sandhyā, slaughtered by you in your jealous resentment against ( your Lord) Siva.”
295. “The night-falls, when columns of darkness are pierced through by the shining light of your face, appear, O Divine Goddess, like huge buffaloes being offered (to you ) by some ( devotees ). ”
296. “You alone place (ạimesi) your (light) step on the eyes of the people in the form of sleep; since, on awakening, their eyes look (red), as if filled with the red lac dye (of your foot ). ”
297. “ If, O Kāli, you had not brought about the dissolution (of the world), how could there have been such a gorgeous decoration of garlands of skulls on all the bodies of your infinite forms ? ”
298. “You are praised by men, who, that very moment, find their iron (greed ) chains snapping, (leaving behind ) black necks, like Siva's characteristic marks, since they attained the status of His followers, as it were.”
299. “Not even for a second, your temple-park is left by the peacocks, out of feelings of affection, as it were, for the peacock of Kārtikeya, near at hand.”
300.“ Always drinking in (inhaling), as it were, columns of the smoke of incense at sacred offerings, you vomit out this thick darkness in the form of nights of the dark fortnight.”
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