The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.61

v2.c17.61

“Having thus brought them home, O Muni, that mother of the world left her form, assumed the shape of a cowherdess, milked them, and faithfully bathed the Tribhuvaneśvara Liṅgam, which highly gratified her. In this manner, to her great delight, she continued to bathe the *liṅgam* daily, and to worship it with five kinds of flowers for fifteen years. After that, O Tuṇḍi, a great demon, by name Kīrti, and his brother Vāsa, both very wicked, came to the place. They were endowed with great personal beauty and the glow of youth; they wore fine earrings, fine clothes and wreaths of flowers; and were redolent with exquisite perfume. They saw Devī in her assumed shape of a cowherdess, possessed of a face resembling the moon in resplendence, with fully developed person and protuberant breasts, bearing a fair complexion, and endowed with Vimba-like lips and fawn-like eyes. Overpowered by lust, they addressed their blandishments to her. In a sweet and tender voice and with clasped hands they said, ‘Who art thou, O thou possessed of a face resembling the orb of the moon, thou that art ravishing our heart ? Thou inflicter of pain at first sight, art thou a divine songstress, (Gandharvī) or a princess, or the daughter of the ocean ? Art thou of exquisite form, the mistress of Kāma ? Art thou Rati ? Or the charmer of Indra’s heart (Śaci) ? Do, we beseech thee, deign to tell us who thou art.’