Parvati Looks Back
Bala Kanda, Chhand 16
Doha 102 · Movement 2 of 3
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Parvati meets her mother once more and begins to depart, giving fitting blessings to everyone gathered at the threshold.
Her companions lead her toward Shiva, but she turns again and again to look at Mena. The Divine Mother moves toward Kailash while remaining, for these aching moments, the daughter who cannot stop seeing the form that raised her.
Shiva satisfies every petitioner and sets out with Uma. The gods rejoice, flowers fall, and celestial drums sound through the sky. Beneath the cosmic celebration, one repeated backward glance carries the whole tenderness of the departure.
Flowers descend before her, and Parvati keeps turning toward the mother behind.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Chhand 16
Uma glancing back toward her mother in departure; friends, Shiva, gods and other participants outside the chosen waist portrait.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 119 · printed pages 117. Reader passage: bala-kanda-chhand-016. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Uma met her mother again and departed; everyone gave Uma appropriate blessings, not Uma blessing the elders.
- She repeatedly looked back at her mother, then friends led her to Shiva.
- After satisfying all the petitioners, Shiva went home with Uma.
- The gods rejoiced, showered flowers, and fine nishan drums sounded in the sky.
Artistic choices
- Approved imaginative Uma appearance reused; one backward glance selected, mother/friends/Shiva/gods outside crop. Exact pose, body direction, age, attire and cream doorway/garden are artistic; lower legs outside frame, no solitary journey or complete participant census asserted.
- Complete source facts retained in metadata; source and existing translations unchanged.
- Actual glance left, gently parted mouth, pearl pendant/strand counts, small forehead ornament, drape/flower detail, cream doorway/path and garden hills are artist choices; no foot stance, gait or exact chronological ornament certificate.
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जननिहि बहुरि मिलि चली उचित असीस सब काहूँ दईं। फिरि फिरि बिलोकति मातु तन तब सखीं लै सिव पहिं गई।। जाचक सकल संतोषि संकरु उमा सहित भवन चले। सब अमर हरषे सुमन बरषि निसान नभ बाजे भले।।
Meeting her mother once more, Parvati set out, bestowing fitting blessings upon all. Looking back again and again at her mother's form, her companions then led her to Shiva.