274 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 7

of the Himalayas; ksetre—in the wife; mendyam—in Mena; iti—thus;
§ugruma—] have heard.

TRANSLATION

Maitreya said: I have heard that, after giving up the body she had
received from Daksa, Dakgayani (his daughter) took her birth in the
kingdom of the Himalayas and was born as the daughter of Mena. I heard
this from authoritative sources.

PURPORT

Mena is also known as Menaka and is the wife of the king of the
Himalayas.

TEXT 59
waa afd qa ae ornare |
ATM TR SAT THAT USI

tam eva dayitam bhuya
aurnkte patim ambika

ananya-bhavaika-gatim
§aktih supteva purusam

tam—him (Lord Siva); eva—certainly; dayitam—beloved; bhityah—again;
avrnkte—accepted; patim—as her husband; ambika— Ambika or Sati; ananya-
bhava—without attachment for others; eka-gatim—the one goal; saktih—
the feminine (marginal and external) energies; supta—lying dormant; iva—
as; piirusam—the masculine (Lord Siva, as representative of the Supreme

Lord).

TRANSLATION

Ambika [goddess Durga], who was known as Daksgayani [Sati], again
accepted Lord Siva 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, parasya sak tir vividhaiva sru-
yate: the Supreme Personality of Godhead has different varieties of energies.
Sakti is feminine, and the Lord is purusa, masculine. It is the duty of the fe-
male to serve under the supreme purusa. As stated in Bhagavad-gita, all living
entities are marginal energies of the Supreme Lord. It is the duty of all
