A History of Sanskrit Literature c14.s7.13

c14.s7.13

‘ The man who devises a plot shall assuredly perish thereby ; the smoke that the fire sends up to blind the eyes, turning into a cloud, quenches with its water the fire itself.’ The goddess Bhramaravāsinī, whose shrine was guarded by bees, who reduced to bones the mortal who sought it, appears in lovely form :