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brace the wBole' circle of human life. It is the Tri-sacti, that makes 

 kings: when creating', she is SatwicUBrahmi: when fostering, Vaishnavi; 

 when destroying, she is Raudri. These are three forms, which were 

 thus produced : Brahma' who is of a red complexion, thinking on Maha'» 

 deVa, vj\\o is white; Us'SacH, or energy, naturally became wM^^. He 

 then produced a damsel of that colour called 'Swe'ta-deVi, or the White 

 goddess. She is called also Brahmi-Sita', Brahma , the creating pow^ 

 er, is thus introduced, thinking on the destru6tive power, for a very ob- 

 vious reason; for his energy is so luxuriant, that, if it were not continu- 

 ally checked, in a short time it would have no room to exert itself: the 

 creative power would cease, and of course Brahma' would no -longer 

 exist. But, if the power of destru6lion was not equally checked, he 

 would destroy Brahma's works so completely, and so fast, that in a short 

 time he would have no opportunity to exert himself. In order to obviate 

 this, Vishnu, or the preserving' power, interposes, and meditating ori 

 Brahma', whose creative power gives a scope to his exertions, his energy 

 becomes red, like Brahma', and produces a damsel of a red compkxionj 

 called Vaishnavi, Rudra, or the power of destruction, is of a white 

 complexion, but as he is meditating on Vishnu, who preserves only that 

 he may destroy, his energy turns black, and becomes a damsel called 

 Raudri, or the fearful goddess, and Tamasi^ or black as darkness. 



Thus, when we are thinking of a triangle, our 'Sacti becomes a tri- 

 angle ; when thinking on an obje^l of a white colour, it then becomes 

 V}hite, 



The White goddess is most beautiful. She is Ecdcshard, or her 

 name consists of one letter. This letter is 1 long, and in a derivative 

 form, it is *Iva, which sounds exactly like Eve, pronounced as a dissyl° 



