A. Royden D'souza

Among Dakṣa’s daughters was Satī, child of extraordinary purity and strength. As she grew, her heart turned instinctively toward Śiva, the great ascetic, the silent lord seated on Kailāsa, who saw no difference between honor and dishonor, gold and dust, life and death.

Saraswathi lifted the vīṇā. One note, and the distances between stars learned how to be measured. A second, and the first meter found its beat. A third, and grammar took root like a tree, branches of cases and tenses spreading clean and even.