Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.774

c8.774

Then they went to the top of the mountain where Pārvatī and her companions were staying. Śiva approached Pārvatī on the shoulders of Nandikeśa with wounds all over his body and blood oozing from them. Pārvatī seeing Śiva thus, with tears rolling down her cheeks asked him, "Oh, Lord of the gods what happened to your lordship? Why defeated you in the battle? Why do you weep like a low-bred man?" Māyāśiva took from his body all his ornaments like Vāsuki and gave them to the companions of Pārvatī. When Pārvatī saw the heads of Gaṇapati and Subrahmanya in the hands of her husband she cried in bitterness. Śiva told her that all his pārṣadas like Maṇibhadra, Puṣpadanta, Damana, Dhūmatāmra and Kūṣmāṇḍa were killed in the battle. Caṇḍi, Bhṛṅgi, Kīriṭi, Mahākāla, Śṛṅkhalī, Caṇḍīśa and Guptanetra were all killed. Māyāśiva told her that he had picked up the heads of Gaṇapati and Subrahmanya found lying in the battlefield. He requested Pārvatī to console him by embracing him. Pārvatī resented the request. She said, "What you say is unfit for the situation. Sexual enjoyment is forbidden in times of misery, fear, meditation, vomiting fever, performing offering to the manes, journey, royal visits, marriage festivities and in the presence of elders and teachers. Why do you make this request to me when I am mourning the death of my sons?"