Brahma Vaivarta Purana
Stealing the Gopis' Garments
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
130.-137.I worship auspicious Goddess Durgä, dear and devoted to Lord Çiva, reclining on Lord Çiva's chest, gently smiling, her face filled with happiness, beautiful, with beautiful eyes, in the full bloom of youth, decorated with jewel armlets, bracelets, anklets, and other ornaments, her cheeks splendid with jewel earrings, her dark like black bees braids graceful with mälati flowers, decorated with sindüra tilaka, beautiful with a musk- dot, wearing a jewel crown and garments pure like fire, splendid with a necklace of regal jewels and a pärijäta garland reaching to her knees, her thighs broad and firm, her breasts raised, glorious, flooded with new youthfulness, glorified by Brahmä and the demigods, splendid like millions of suns, her lips bimba fruits, her complexion like campaka flowers, her splendid teeth rebuking a host of pearls, and her face an autumn moon, a splendid goddess who fulfills the desires of her devotees. 138.After meditating in this way, the girl following the vow should place a flower to her head. With devotion she should accept the flower, meditate again, and worship again. 139.Happily and with devotion, the girl following the vow should daily offer these sixteen things with the previously described mantra. 140.Then she should recite the previously described prayers, bow down with devotion, and hear the pastimes and virtues of Goddess Durgä.
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