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“Having been engaged in playing with some lady, your words are very disturbing. Your mind is very fickle and the body is full of tremor and a thrill (horipulation) is present on you, who have become apprehensive like a crow. You alone are impudent and how could you call me impudent. After hearing this, Girisa then replied to Iswari (the goddess), O Devi! Who has been seen (by you)? Tell (me), where is she? Are you not becoming immodest?” After listening to these very agreeable words of the God, the Goddess got hold of the twisted locks of mahesitr. (the great god) with the hand. After loosening that bond (of hair), she cajoled him with side glances. |
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| And Gaga having been filled with curiosity after looking at her who was striking the Lord of Lords, Maheswara with side glances, fell down from the crown. Hara after seeing her fallen spoke to the Goddess smilingly, “O Devi! One who commits sin covertly, falls oneself. So Ganga has fallen on your feet. O Devisi! Be pleased. Ganga , the daughter of Jahnu, who committed the sin covertly has fallen on your feet from the crest (crown). Thus O dear! one should not commit even a very small sin covertly. Having committed, one falls immediately to twenties of hells. May it be a man or a woman O Devisi! One committing the hidden sin, falls immediately to misery like Ganga,” After listening to the words of the lord. |
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O Maheshwari ! the learned Goddess of the Gods spoke smilingly to the Lord “As she has played covertly with my husband for long, so ,O Lord! while being on earth, she should wander profusely as a result of my words. Having fallen from the crown, O Lord! let the beautiful one roam about on the earth. Due to having committed the sin, she does not deserve to climb the crest, the matted hair of the honourable God. Descending on the earth, as it has moved in three paths, it is to be known “Trineargaga (one who moves into three paths)” The Goddess stopped after uttering these words with anger. O Jagadambika! After seeing her thus cursed by Bhavani, Hara immediately spoke the pleasing words to Ganga , “O dear! on the eighth day in the holy month of Bhadrapada , when the sun is present in Simha (constellation) O Devisi! You move around purifying numerous men. The holy river Bhagirathi, though sullied by having into it the bones of the sinners and also the rivers along with lakes and seas should come and get themselves purified with its contact in the holy month of Bhadrapada when the sun is in the Simha constellation. O Maheshwari!listen,on the eighth day of Bhadra, who so ever baths, donates, performs penance, religious offerings and throwing of bones here according to the rites, the merit of that becomes hundred times. |
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