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Gaüdavaho
301. “You look beautiful with your bosom luminous with the rays of sapphires in your garland, as if with a cage made out of enemies' swords, kept off ( amtaria) for the protection of people bowing (in devotion at your feet).”
302. “When you flash out in the form of night, the moon playing the part of ( resembling) the skull, that time the circle of planets makes for the decoration of human bones.”
303. “If you had not turned the serried rows of the demons' swords into blue lotuses (inclined at your feet), how could have been the ceremony of the worship of your lotus-like feet carried out ?”
304. “You shine with your bosom between the two breasts besmeared with the wet, red sandal paste, as if bleeding, ( being pricked ) by the thorns of the garlands of Bilva leaves.”
305. “The blood-streams spurting through the outlets (paths) made by your trident, O Forest-goddess, (piercing) the body of the Buffalo ( demon ), look like the triple course of your (three ) eyes flushed red with anger (when) rivetted on him.”
306. “The inner hall of your temple, O Goddess, darkened, as with black collyrium, by the lustre of swords and daggers (asidhenu) gifted by warriors, leaves the owls even during the day, free from fear.”
307. “You are ( every day) worshipped by ( your devotee ) the Night with offerings of rice-grains resembling the stars, having first made an offering of a dripping head, as it were, by means of ( in the form of) the orb of the setting sun.”
308. “You shine, O Gaurī, in the midst of watery clouds in the shape and form of lightning, as if you have been (Yasodā's divine daughter substituted by Devaki) flying up to the heaven along with the death-dealing stone-slab placed by Kaisa (for striking dead on it Devaki's new-born children ).”
309.“ With the lustre of the jewel-like toe-nails overspreading the red lac dye, blending with sweat ( caused ) by the touch of God Siva, your foot looks beautiful, as though the crescent moon, the Gods' river (Gangā) and the twilight have (combined ) to bow at your feet ( along with the head of Siva.)”
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