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her for the blackness of her skin. This taunt so grieved her that she left him for a time, and repairing to a deep forest, performed a most severe course of austerities, until Brahmā granted her as a boon that her complexion should be golden, and from this circumstance she is known as Gauri.[1]
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SIVA AND PARVATI.
- ↑ Kennedy, “Hindu Mythology," p. 334.
