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of your great heroic exploits, the heroism of others looks (indeed) trivial and insignificant.
41.
The five-arrowed god of love (Kāma) whose arrows are so very soft as flowers cannot be borne by anyone from amongst gods, men- and Nāgas-even that Kāma you burnt to ashes in the fire from your third eye ! What can be more wonderful than this ?
42.
Who has not admired your position - bodily posture - (sthiti) when you went out to destroy the demon Tripura? You rode the chariot of the earth; you held the bow of the greatest mountain (called Himālaya); its bow-string was Vāsuki (a serpent king); it was fastened at the two ends of the bow (for which special notches were made).
43.
Did you not, at the time of the churning of the ocean, O Śankara, gulp the Kālkūța poison which was about to destroy the three worlds and dry up the hosts of gods and demons by its scorching heat like that of the hot season-summer ?
44.
Or it is no use talking much; you alone accomplished, O Sambhu, what was impossible to accomplish for any one else on this earth for the well-being of all the people
45.
We bow to you; being bejewelled with serpents you look charming; you possess the never setting crescent in your brownish matted hair, you carry in your hands an axe, a deer, a human skull and a trident and you are the highest bliss. What else can we do?
46.
What a wonder ! How shall we describe, O Iśvara,
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