elestial cow, the original progenetrix of all kine in
Heaven and on Earth.

43. A Sanyasin is one that bears the stick as the badge of the mode of
life he has adopted. Chatrin is the king. Kundin is one with the
calabash. The meaning is that it is Mahadeva who becomes the Sanyasin or
the mendicant on the one hand and the monarch on the other.

44. Every person belonging to the three superior orders bears the Upavita
or sacred-thread as his badge. The deities also, including Mahadeva, bear
the Upavita. Mahadeva's Upavita is made of living snakes.

45. Arupa is formless, or as the commentator explains, nishkala, i.e.,
without parts, being indivisible. Arupa is of the form of multifarious
acts or operations or effects in the universe. Adyarupa is Hiranyagarbha.

46. The commentator explains that by saying that Maheswara is in the
heart, etc., what is stated is that he is the several cases of which Jiva
is made up while in his unemancipate state, viz., the Annamaya kosha, the
pranamaya kosha, the Manomaya kosha, and the Vijnanmaya kosha. What is
meant by Yogatman is that he is the Soul or essence of Yoga of the
Chidachidgranthi, i.e., the Anandamaya kosha. By Yogasanjnita is meant
that he is Yoga or the Twam padarthah.

47. The meaning seems to be this: the man that is not devoted to Mahadeva
is sure to be subjected to misery. His distress will know no bounds. To
think that such a man has reached the lowest depth of misery only when
from want of food he has to live upon water or air would not be correct.

48. Bhuta-bhavana-Bhavajnam is one acquainted with both the bhavana and
the bhava of all bhutas, i.e., all the living creatures.

49. Without the Srutis, He cannot be comprehended, for he is above all
dialectics or arguments. The object which the Sankhya system has in view,
flows from Him, and the object also which the Yogins have in view has its
origin in Him.

50. Mahadeva, as spoken of as Brahma, first filled Space with his
energy. Space forming, as it were, the material with which everything
else was created. Having filled Space as it were with creative energy, he
created the primeval egg and placed Brahma or the Grandsire of the
universe within it.

51. Tanmatras are the subtile elements, those which we perceive being
gross ones.

52. Here Mahadeva is represented as Supreme Brahman. Hence, the Being
that created Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra, derived his power to create from
Mahadeva. Thus Mahadeva is Unmanifes