This insult to Siva could not be borne; her soul refused to be pacified; and thrusting away from her the shrinking crowd, she cried in wild accents:
" Hear, all ye elders of the assembly, who have talked over this slight upon Sankara. Speedily shall ye reap your due reward, and dearly shall my father rue it. Whenever blasphemy is spoken against the saints, or Sambhu, or Vishnu, the ordinance is either to tear out the blasphemer's tongue, if it is in your power, or else to close your ears and run away. The universal spirit, the great Lord, Purari, the father of the world, the friend of all, He it is whom my besotted father has reviled. Therefore this body of mine, begotten of his seed, I hasten to abandon, and impress on my soul the image of Him who bears the moon as his crest and a bull as his device." As she thus spoke, the flames consumed her body; a great cry of lamentation went up from the whole assembly.
" Hear, all ye elders of the assembly, who have talked over this slight upon Sankara. Speedily shall ye reap your due reward, and dearly shall my father rue it. Whenever blasphemy is spoken against the saints, or Sambhu, or Vishnu, the ordinance is either to tear out the blasphemer's tongue, if it is in your power, or else to close your ears and run away. The universal spirit, the great Lord, Purari, the father of the world, the friend of all, He it is whom my besotted father has reviled. Therefore this body of mine, begotten of his seed, I hasten to abandon, and impress on my soul the image of Him who bears the moon as his crest and a bull as his device." As she thus spoke, the flames consumed her body; a great cry of lamentation went up from the whole assembly.