emblem of strength, and Ganesa, the god of success. Come, let us join in saluting her." So saying, they joined their palms and looking upwards sang in harmony : — Sarva-mangal-mangalye sive sarvartha-sadhike saranye, tryambake gouri narayani namostute* They both bowed with deepest reverence, and when they rose, Mahendra inquired with a choking voice : " When shall we look at this form of the mother ?" " When," said the monk, " all the children of the mother learn to call her so, then will she be propitiated." Mahendra abruptly asked, " Where are my wife and daughter ?" " Come and you will see them." " Yes, I will see them but once, and then bid them adieu." " Why ? " M. " I want to take your noble vow." " Where would you send them," asked the monk. Mahendra mused and then said, "There is no- body in my house, I have no other place of refuge. And, in truth, where else would I find an asylum in these dire days ? " " Go out of the temple by the way you came by.
- This is the prescribed form of invocation of the deity here represent-
ed. The form of the goddess here represented is called Rajrajeswari or simply Durga and is the form in which the goddess is worshipped in September — October by the Hindus of Bengal. Like the forms referred to above, this one also is a form of the goddess of Power (Sakii) in Hindu mythology. The new meaning read into it is, of course, the author's own.
