costly garments, resplendent with ornaments, her placid face being irradiated with a gentle smile. The anguish of separation ceased, and joy filled his soul as Sati thus addressed him: "Be firm, O Mahādeva! lord of my soul! In whatever state of my being I may exist, I shall never be separated from my lord; and now have I been born the daughter of Himavat in order to become again thy wife; therefore no longer grieve on account of our separation.' Having thus consoled Siva, Sati disappeared."
In another chapter of the same Purana we have an account of their reunion.[1] "Sati soon obtained another birth in the womb of Himavat's wife; and Siva, collecting the bones and ashes from her funeral pile, made a necklace of the bones and covered his body with the ashes, and thus preserved them as memorials
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PARVATI WORSHIPPING THE LINGA.
- ↑ Kennedy, "Hindu Mythology," p. 334.
