Sūta said: Satī the mental creation of the lord was adopted as his daughter by Dakṣa. She the mother of the worlds attained Rudra as her husband. At the beginning of the creation Brahmā had created a Being (Rudra) possessed of a body half man’s and half women’s[3] and then the Creator said, “Divide thyself.” And he being accosted thus, divided himself into two. It was then that she was born.