vesiväri, 2024

“Perform asceticism for the sake of all creatures and create the universe as it was before. Šiva agreed and went to the forest to perform asceticism”. P.227

“After a thousand years of pleasure, Yayāti lived in the forest with Brahmins for another thousand years, fasting in water alone, torturing himself between the five fires, standing on one foot” p. 238

Lähteenä The origins of evil in Hindu mythology, Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, University of California Press, 1976