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The following chapter (LIII) deals with the Altar (*Pīṭha*) which symbolically represents Satī (the chaste), the consort of Śiva. The well-known fifty-one *Pīṭha-sthāna* are the sacred spots spread over the whole country, where the parts of the body of Satī fell after she had been cut to pieces by the discus of Vishṇu as a result of her quarrel with the gods at a great sacrifice (festival) at her father's house wherefrom her husband was excluded in order to humiliate him.¹