"Parvati" Quotes from Famous Books
... bore him a son Vidyutkesa, who in his turn took for his wife Lankatanka[t.]a, the daughter of Sandhya (V. 21). She bore him a son Sukesa, whom she abandoned, but he was seen by Siva as he was passing by with his wife Parvati, who made the child as old as his mother, and immortal, and gave him a celestial city. Sukesa married a Gandharvi called Devavati who bore three sons, Malyavat, Sumali and Mali. These sons practised intense austerities, when Brahma appeared and conferred on them ... — The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... (Ga.nesa), Parvati, and the Sun, these five deities should be honoured with worship by my followers. [Footnote: It is evident from this verse, as from verse 47, that although Vaish.navas give preferential worship to Vish.nu, they are really Pantheists in the sense ... — The Siksha-Patri of the Swami-Narayana Sect • Professor Monier Williams (Trans.) |