नवे वयसि सद्भोगसाधने सुखकारणे ।। महोपचारसद्भोगैर्वृथैव त्वं तपस्यसि।। २१।।
In your fresh youth, the means of good enjoyment and the cause of happiness through all requisite articles of pleasure, you are performing this penance in vain.
का त्वं कस्यासि तनया किमर्थं विजने वने ।। तपश्चरसि दुर्धर्षं मुनिभिः प्रयतात्मभिः ।। २२ ।।
Who are you? Whose daughter are you? Why are you performing a penance in this desolate forest? Your penance is such as cannot be outdone even by sages of elevated souls.
पूर्वं दक्षगृहे जन्म सती शङ्करकामिनी ।। योगेन त्यक्तदेहाहं तातेन पतिनिन्दिना ।। २५ ।।
Formerly my birth was in the house of Dakṣa. I was then Satī, the wife of Śiva. On account of my father’s insulting my husband I cast off my body by means of Yoga.