Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
The Rakshasi lived on the northern slopes of the
Himalayas and was called Karkati. Being a
Rakshasa woman, she was large-mouthed,
crescent-teethed and lightning-eyed. It seemed as if
the sable rocks themselves yielded their contents to
frame her hands and legs wherewith to move and
act. Her smile was like a thunder clap. Her eyes
whirled in their sockets, like the finny creatures
that circle round and round but do not run away.
Her two thighs which were like big date trees
supported a huge cumbrous body. Her nails able to
pierce the clouds were of adamantine density. She
afflicted the minds of all creatures on the face of
the earth with her insatiate gastric fire of hunger
which was blazing day and night like the
Manvantaric flames. Even were all creatures of
Jambu-dwipa fall a prey to her capacious stomach,
she would yet find them a scanty meal, like an
ocean in spite of its receipt of river-waters, and
crave for more. Her gastric fire would be but
slightly appeased like an autumnal heat with slight
showers. Now she wanted to appease this fire
without any injury to herself and so made Tapas
by propitiating Brahma for aid. For this purpose,
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