The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s6.25

v2.c11.s6.25

¹³⁹ This relation is that of the 'enjoyer' and the 'enjoyed' (bhoktā; bhogya). Abhinavagupta who lived at the time when the most ingenuous and diversified images of Śakti were carved (c. 1000 A.D.) says: "The God of unsurpassed felicity is called the enjoyer. Desire and such other contents of His self are what he enjoys. It is for this reason only that he assumes the state of Śakti" ('Tantrāloka', śl. 190; comm.).