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    The Purāṇa Index

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 111.
    Ardhanārīnaravapuḥ — from Hiraṇyagarbha: two parts,

    male and female; the male half divided into eleven parts

    called Rudras by crying and running (oozing); each became

    a gaṇeśvara; the female half came to be divided into two,

    Śukla (right) and Kṛṣṇa (left); from her came Prajñā and

    Śrī and these in turn spread over the whole world in

    thousand ways.

    Vā. 9. 75-98; 41. 36.