Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.141

c9.141

Meanwhile Śrī Rāma was waiting impatiently for Sītā to return. Then Sītā approached him looking into a lotus flower she held in her hand and also throwing, off and on, amorous glances at him. (She was in fact Pārvatī in the guise of Sītā). And she told Rāma :—My Lord! you would excuse my delay in returning. The delay was due to my tarrying there to look at the play of two swans. Śrī Rāma looked closely and recognised that it was not Sītā and replied as follows :—Oh Devī! my salutations. Did you come alone? Where is Deva? How is it that you are separated from him? Mahādeva and Mahādevī are one and inseparable. Then how this separation? Sītā (Pārvatī) :—Salutations. Thou art omniscient and omnipotent. I return to the presence of Śiva.