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42 emblem of strength, and Ganesa, the god of success. Come, let us join in saluting her." So saying, they joined their palms and looking upwards sang in harmony : — Sarva-mangal-mangalye sive sarvartha-sadhike saranye, tryambake gouri narayani namostute* They both bowed with deepest reverence, and when they rose, Mahendra inquired with a choking voice : " When shall we look at this form of the mother ?" " When," said the monk, " all the children of the mother learn to call her so, then will she be propitiated." Mahendra abruptly asked, " Where are my wife and daughter ?" " Come and you will see them." " Yes, I will see them but once, and then bid them adieu." " Why ? " M. " I want to take your noble vow." " Where would you send them," asked the monk. Mahendra mused and then said, "There is no- body in my house, I have no other place of refuge. And, in truth, where else would I find an asylum in these dire days ? " " Go out of the temple by the way you came by. ed. The form of the goddess here represented is called Rajrajeswari or simply Durga and is the form in which the goddess is worshipped in September — October by the Hindus of Bengal. Like the forms referred to above, this one also is a form of the goddess of Power (Sakii) in Hindu mythology. The new meaning read into it is, of course, the author's own.
 * This is the prescribed form of invocation of the deity here represent-