Wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi goddess of plenty

Usage examples of parvati.

And such was his phenomenal fecundity (he assured Parvati while beating her) that he ruined the'careers of many a loose woman by giving them babies whom they would love too much to expose.

Kissinger argued the cause of Yahya Khan, the same Yahya was secretly arranging the President's famous state visit to China… there were, therefore, great forces working against my reunion with Parvati and Sam's with the Tiger.

I, meanwhile, became the willing captive of the Indian magicians, because Parvati dragged me into the procession with, 'Now that I've found you I'm not letting you go.

Then Parvati whispered some other words, and, inside the basket of invisibility, I, Saleem Sinai, complete with my loose anonymous garment, vanished instantly into thin air.

Picture Singh lifted it one‑handed and tossed it into the back of the Army truck taking him and Parvati and ninety‑nine others to the aircraft waiting at the military airfield.

Afterwards, Parvati said, 'I didn't want to tell you‑but nobody should be kept invisible that long‑it was dangerous, but what else was there to do?

Arre, be quiet, Resham, this captain is known to our Parvati personal!

Parvati and Shiva, Shiva and Parvati, fated to meet by the divine destiny of their names, were united in the moment of victory.

Major Shiva declared to Parvati that his arrival at the magicians' ghetto had been motivated by a desire to be done with the rich bitches of Indian high society.

When Shiva grasped Parvati by the wrist, I was with Picture Singh at an emergency conference of the city's many red cells, discussing the ins and outs of the national railway strike.

On September 12th, however, things changed: because Parvati, kneeling at his feet, fully aware of his views on the subject, told him that she was going to have his child.

In short, my son fell ill, and although his mother, Parvati or Laylah, went in search of the herbs of her magical gift‑although infusions of herbs in well‑boiled water were constantly administered, the wraith‑like worms of tuberculosis refused to be driven away.

When one of the older women in the colony of the magicians told her‑as Resham Bibi might have‑that the illness could not come out while the child remained dumb, Parvati seemed to find that plausible.

They, we, are running now, every which way, Parvati and I are separated as the soldiers charge, I lose sight of Picture Singh, there are rifle‑butts beating pounding, I see one of the contortionist triplets fall beneath the fury of the guns, people are being pulled by the hair towards the waiting yawning vans.

Yes, I told them everything, I named all five hundred and seventy‑eight (because Parvati, they informed me courteously, was dead, and Shiva gone over to the enemy, and the five‑hundred‑and‑eighty‑first was doing the talking…)‑forced into treachery by the treason of another, I betrayed the children of midnight.