Mena : Queen of Himavat or Himalaya, mother of Umā (Pārvati), & Mainak.
... attract the beloved? She decided to take recourse to austerities and mind-centered meditation in order to make her beauty bear fruit; for how else could she secure such love and such a husband? Mena, hearing that her daughter, who had set her heart on Shiva, was resolved to practise asceticism, clasped her to her bosom and spoke, trying to dissuade her from the terrible vow of hermits: "There... desolate mountains. O my child, how alien is this austerity from this body of thine! The delicate Shirisha flower 3 may bear the tread of the bee, but not of the bird." Though she urged her, yet Mena could not rein in her daughter's fixed purpose from action. For can a mind, stead-fastedly resolved on the object of its desire, be turned back _______ Page 19 any more than a stream ...
... girl And in exchange an emperor for my ally. It must be done. Enter Menadevi and Visaldeo. MENADEVI You sent for me, my lord? CURRAN How many summers might our daughter count, Mena? MENADEVI Sixteen, my lord. CURRAN She flowers apace And like a rose in bloom expects the breeze With blushing petals. We can delay no longer Her nuptial rites. MENADEVI The ...
... manifestation. The word "sleep" picks out with devastating brevity both the complacence and the unconsciousness of those who wag their tongues in a merely mental way about occult and spiritual pheno-mena. If we look a little closely at the two parts of the piquant state-ment we shall observe a number of important implications. When God's growing up is contrasted to wise men's talking and sleeping ...
... critics that only the first eight cantos are from Kalidasa's hand. The poet opens the first sargas with a description of the Himalaya, "a god concealed in mountain majesty", recounts his union with Mena, "that mind-born child of the world-fathers" and the birth of their daughter, Parvati. We are told that Shiva has renounced marriage after the death of his first wife, Sati, but that Sati has been reborn ...
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