Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2098

c8.2098

The daughters of the serpent kings are all beautiful damsels with fair, spotless and lustrous bodies. They smear their bodies with fragrant pastes made from Aloe, Sandal and Saffron. They then stand around Ādiśeṣa with their bewitching smiles and amorous movements of their bodies accompanied by erotic side glances expressing their carnal desires. The mighty, virtuous, celebrated Ādiśeṣa sits there surrounded by serpents for the welfare of the world. He sits there worshipped by Devas, Siddhas, Gandharvas, Vidyādharas and Maharṣis, bearing the divine garland ‘Vaijayantī’, and wearing fragrant flower garlands, blue apparels and ornaments in ears and neck and holding in his hand the Halāyudha. Suppressing his anger and keeping calm and serene he pleases all around with his pathetic look. (9th Skandha, Devī Bhāgavata).