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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
forest of delusion along with her attendants the
goddess Durga and others. Having put an end to
all living beings and the universe, she holds up in
her hand a honeyed vessel which is this earth and
wears on her breast the three Lokas (worlds), as a
garland composed of the three lotuses, blue, red,
and white.* In her arm, she carries, like a sportive
par rot in a cage, a man-lion thundering with the
sound of a thunder-cloud. On her stainless body,
still as the autumnal sky, she has sportively, like
the young cuckoo, the great Time with his sweet
voice like that of the melodious flute. Her
victorious bow is the non-existence of all and her
arrows, the created pains. Thus (at the time of
Pralaya or deluge), does she dance and reel
everywhere at her sweet will and pleasure with
great radiance. Besides, she wears on her head
Swarga as her head ornament and on her feet,
Patala, the many hells strung as her leg ornaments.
The sun and the moon are her ear ornaments, the
Himalayas, her bones and Mahameru, her golden
ornament and the Chakravala Mountain, her
girdle. Sometimes she will ride on the peacockvehicle
of Subbaramania (the son of Siva) inclining
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