Devishataka 70_47

70_47

O Devī, you are the lineage of auspiciousness—the expanse of merit, the flourishing of welfare—for Hara, the husband of the Daughter of the King of Mountains, Śiva, who burned desire, that is, who reduced the Fish-bannered God to ashes, and whose self is unclad, that is, from whose body clothing has departed, who is clad in the directions, naked. For that reason, Hara shines, looks splendid, endowed with such majesty. / And here, there is no expectation toward a verbal action at all: when considered, the primary sense does not construe, because, due to the lack of a verb, the accusative case of *śubhasaṃtānam* cannot be explained, nor can the lack of agreement with the nominative *tvam*; thus the verb connected with this implied sense is hidden. And it is derived right here from the commentary. Then the construction becomes: "Since, O Devī, you remove (*harasi*) the succession of inauspiciousness (*aśubhasaṃtānam*), the series of obscurations, for him who has burned desire, that is, who is free from longing, and whose self is unclad, that is, whose nature has destroyed the web of afflictions, therefore, through the removal of that succession of inauspiciousness, he shines, blazes, in such a manner." (70)