LalithA SahasranAma [754] AparnA

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AparnA : Apa, removing, rna, debt. We said in our devistava; "when

you have not discharged your debt to me, though I repeat your name,

O Siva, why are you not ashamed to bear the name of AparnA [the

discharger of debt]"? According to the Nirukta, Parna, falling,

aparna free from falling.

 

Or, a-parna, without a leaf. The KAlika Pr, says, "She renounced

even leaves as food [when she was doing tapas] hence the daughter of

HimavAn is called by Devas AparnA."

 

The same is repeated in the BrahmA. Pr.

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry.