Laghustutih (vrittisameta) 154

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By this: "She who sits upon the corpse-seat"—eminently arrived (itaḥ saṅgataḥ), having attained union with her own self, Paramaśiva is the corpse; he indeed, resting comfortably upon the bed of Vāsuki, is the corpse-seat; seated upon it, she whose nature it is to sit upon it; this means seated upon the region of Śiva's left lap. You who are such, they meditate upon you "for the realization of your nature," for the direct attainment of the knowledge of your essential nature. Endowed with what qualities? "Whose matted hair is adorned with a crescent moon," she whose mass of matted hair is adorned with a crescent moon, a lunar digit; "wearing a garland of human skulls," possessing a garland of jasmine flowers, or a garland of large, round, white pearls like human skulls, or wearing a garland of campaka flowers; "wearing garments crimson like bandhūka blossoms," she who thus wears garments, clothes, crimson like bandhūka flowers; "four-armed," she who has four arms; "three-eyed," she who has three eyes; "with full, high breasts," she whose breasts are full and high; "whose waist is slender and marked with three folds," she whose body is slender, indented, and marked with three folds in the middle, in the waist region—meaning beautiful in all limbs.