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the other hand Shiva is all compassion when it came to saving the
world from the serpent Vaasuki’s poison during the amritamanthana.
Vaasuki, used as a churning rope, was so tired and sick from the
repeated action of churning that he vomited the most potent poison
into the ocean of milk.
Fearing the destruction of the world
through this poisoning, Shiva immediately drank the poison. He
Himself would have succumbed to the poison were it not for the
timely intervention by Paarvati, His consort. Paarvati held Shiva’s
throat tightly preventing entry of the poison into His body. |
