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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 7]
of the Himalayas;  kṣetre —in the wife;  menāyām —in Menā;  iti —thus;  śuśruma —I have heard.
TRANSLATION
Maitreya said: I have heard that, after giving up the body she had received from Dākṣa, Dākṣāyaṇī (his daughter) took her birth in the kingdom of the Himalayas and was born as the daughter of Menā. I heard this from authoritative sources.
PURPORT
Menā is also known as Menakā and is the wife of the king of the Himalayas.
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तमेव दयितं भूय आश्चर्यं पतिमम्बिका । अनन्यमावैकगतिं शक्तिः सुमेव पूरुषम् ॥५९॥
tam eva dayitam bhūya āvṛṅkte patim ambikā ananya-bhāvaika-gatim śaktiḥ supteva pūruṣam
tam —him (Lord Śiva);  eva —certainly;  dayitam —beloved;  bhūyaḥ —again;  āvṛṅkte —accepted;  patim —as her husband;  ambikā —Ambikā or Satī;  ananya-bhāva —without attachment for others;  eka-gatim —the one goal;  śaktiḥ —the feminine (marginal and external) energies;  suptā —lying dormant;  iva —as;  pūruṣam —the masculine (Lord Śiva, as representative of the Supreme Lord).
TRANSLATION
Ambikā [goddess Durgā], who was known as Dākṣāyaṇī [Satī], again accepted Lord Śiva as her husband, just as different energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead act during the course of a new creation.
PURPORT
According to the verse of the Vedic  mantras ,  parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrū-yate : the Supreme Personality of Godhead has different varieties of energies.  Śakti  is feminine, and the Lord is  puruṣa , masculine. It is the duty of the female to serve under the supreme  puruṣa . As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā , all living entities are marginal energies of the Supreme Lord. It is the duty of all