Rudra-saṁhitā, Satīkhaṇḍa 7—Śiva Blesses Sandhyā
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2022-11-21

Brahmā said, “O sage, when Śiva vanished after granting her the boons, Sandhyā too went to the place where Medhātithi was performing sacrifice. She entered the sacrificial hall without being observed by anyone, thanks to Śiva’s favour. She recalled to her memory the brāhmaṇa boy who had instructed her in the procedure of penance. O great sage, at the bidding of Brahmā, Vasiṣṭha had assumed the guise of a brāhmaṇa boy and instructed her in the rites of penance. Meditating on that Brahmacārin, her tutor in the mode of austerities, Sandhyā thought of him as her future husband, and entered the blazing sacrificial fire unobserved by the sages. She was delighted that it was by Śiva’s favour that she could enter the sacrificial fire. Her body itself had become sacrificial offering in that sacrifice. When it was burnt, it could not be distinguished from the ordinary puroḍāśā since it too had the same fragrance. At the bidding of Śiva, the god of fire sent forth her body to the pure zone of the sun. The sun severed her body into two halves and placed the same on his own chariot for the propitiation of the pitṛs and devas.

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